My AWS re:Invent Recap presentation from the AWS User Group UK meetup #8: AWS re:Invent, which took place on 13 March at News UK in London.

1. ianmas@amazon.com
@IanMmmm
Amazon Web Services
Ian Massingham – Technical Evangelist

2. AGENDA
recent innovations, service and feature launches

3. Compute
Storage &
Content
Delivery
AWS Global Infrastructure
Database
App Services
Deployment & Administration
Networking
Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS IAM AWS
CloudFormation
AWS
Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Data
Pipeline
AWS
OpsWorks
Amazon
CloudSearch
Amazon SQSAmazon SNS
Amazon Elastic
Transcoder
Amazon SWFAmazon SES
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon RDS
Amazon
ElastiCache
Amazon
RedShift
AWS Storage
Gateway
Amazon S3
Amazon
Glacier
Amazon
CloudFrontAmazon
EC2
Amazon
EMR
Amazon
VPC
Amazon
Route 53
AWS
Direct Connect

4. AWS.TYPEPAD.COM
@AWScloud @AWS_UKI

5. 2008 2009 2010 2011
Amazon EBS
Amazon EC2
Amazon SNS
AWS Identity
& Access
Management
AWS Import
& Export
Amazon
CloudWatch
Amazon EMR
Amazon RDS
Amazon VPC
Auto Scaling
Elastic Load
Balancing
Amazon
ElastiCache
Amazon SES
AWS
CloudFormation
AWS Direct
Connect
AWS Elastic
Beanstalk
GovCloud
Amazon SWF
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Glacier
Amazon
Dynamo DB
Amazon
CloudSearch
Amazon EC2
AWS Storage
Gateway
Amazon
CloudTrail
Amazon
CloudHSM
Amazon
WorkSpaces
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Elastic
Transcoder
Amazon
AppStream
AWS OpsWorks
AWS Data
Pipeline
AWS Rapid Pace of Innovation
20132012
Since inception AWS has:
• Released 714 new services and features
• Introduced over 35 major new services
• Announced 41 price reductions
2014
*as of February 28, 2014

6. March 2014
June 2014
Sept 2014
Dec 2014
Feb 2014
May 2014
Aug 2014
Nov 2014
Jan 2014
April 2014
July 2014
Oct 2014
33
57New features in
2014 so far including…
New Amazon EC2 Usage
Reports
January 28, 2014
Amazon EMR Input Connector
for Amazon Kinesis
February 20, 2014
New Edge locations for Amazon
CloudFront and Amazon Route 53
January 08, 2014
24
*as of February 28, 2014
New SSD-Based Node Types
for Amazon Redshift
January 23, 2014
New Amazon EC2 M3 Instance
Sizes
January 21, 2014

7. Amazon EBS
standard volume
prices are lowered
up to 50% for both
storage and I/O
requests.
January 21, 2014
50%
All Amazon S3
standard storage
prices lowered up
to 22% in the US,
with similar price
reductions across
all other regions.
January 21, 2014
22%
AWS Storage Gateway
price reductions for
volume storage and
virtual tape library
(VTL) lowered by 10.5%
in all regions except
Asia Pacific (Tokyo),
where the reduction
will be 6%.
January 31, 2014
10.5%
We’ve announced price reductions 41* times since
our inception in 2006. Recent price drops included…
*as of February 28, 2014

8. RECENT INNOVATIONS
SERVICE & FEATURE LAUNCHES

9. AMAZON KINESIS

10. GENERATE ➔ STORE ➔ ANALYZE ➔ SHARE

11. GENERATE ➔ STORE ➔ ANALYZE ➔ SHARE
BATCH
PROCESSING

12. GENERATE ➔ ➔ SHARE
STREAM
PROCESSING

13. AMAZON KINESIS
REAL-TIME DATA STREAM PROCESSING

14. Real-time response to content
in semi-structured data streams
Relatively simple computations
on data (aggregates, filters,
sliding window, etc.)

15. Hourly server logs: how your
systems went wrong an hour ago
Weekly / Monthly Bill: What you
spent this past billing cycle
Daily customer report from your
website: tells you what deal or ad
to try next time
Daily fraud reports: tells you if there
was fraud yesterday
Daily business reports: tells me
how customers used AWS services
yesterday
Real-time metrics: what just went
wrong now
Real-time spending alerts/caps:
guaranteeing you can’t overspend
Real-time analysis: what to offer
the current customer now
Real-time detection: blocks
fraudulent use now
Fast ETL into Amazon Redshift:
how are customers using services
now

16. AMAZON KINESIS
Data
Sources
App.4
[Machine
Learning]
AWSEndpoint
App.1
[Aggregate &
De-Duplicate]
Data
Sources
Data
Sources
Data
Sources
App.2
[Metric
Extraction]
S3
DynamoDB
Redshift
App.3
[Sliding
Window
Analysis]
Data
Sources
Availability
Zone
Shard 1
Shard 2
Shard N
Availability
Zone
Availability
Zone

17. AMAZON WORKSPACES

18. FULLY MANAGED DESKTOPS
IN THE CLOUD
Launch the number
of WorkSpaces
needed
All heavy lifting
taken care of by
AWS
Users receive
email to install
clients and connect
➔ ➔

19. BROAD CLIENT
DEVICE SUPPORT
STANDARD &
PERFORMANCE
BUNDLES

20. AMAZON APPSTREAM
Demo

21. AMAZON APPSTREAM

22. STREAM RESOURCE-INTENSIVE
APPLICATIONS FROM THE CLOUD

23. STREAM RESOURCE-INTENSIVE
APPLICATIONS FROM THE CLOUD

24. USES THE G2.2XLarge INSTANCE

25. HOW?
Integrate AppStream SDK with application
Deploy Application to AppStream
Create Entitlement Service
Create Client Apps
▶️ Games ▶ Media and Entertainment ▶ Simulation Software ▶ 3D Graphics Development

26. AMAZON RDS FOR POSTGRESQL

27. AMAZON RDS FOR POSTGRESQL
Launching with PostgreSQL 9.3.1
Wide selection of available instances
▶️ Including the new high-memory db.cr1.8xlarge
Choose Multi-AZ deployment for high availability
▶ Synchronous replication to a secondary in a different AZ
Use Provisioned IOPS for predictable performance

28. NEW M3 INSTANCES FOR RDS
m3.xlarge & m3.2xlarge
Second generation EC2 instances
October 2012
m3.medium& m3.large
Second generation EC2 instances
January 2014
RDS support
m3 instances
Feb 2014
⬇️6% cost
⬆️50% CPU

29. Join us at AWS Summit London on 30
April and learn about the AWS platform,
new services and how to get started.
Register for a Summit near you at:
aws.amazon.com/aws-summit-2014/
@AWS_UKI
twitter.com/AWS_UKI

30. ianmas@amazon.com
@IanMmmm
THANK YOU
Ian Massingham – Technical Evangelist

31. ⬇️️ download the slides for more resources ⬇️

32. KINESIS RESOURCES
Sign up for Limited Preview
http://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/limited-preview/
Get SDK and Endpoint information after getting into Limited Preview
Getting Started Guide
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/getting-started.html
Developer Guide
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/introduction.html

33. APPSTREAM RESOURCES
FAQ
http://aws.amazon.com/appstream/faqs/
Sign up for Limited Preview
http://aws.amazon.com/appstream/limited-preview/
Developer Guide
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/appstream/latest/developerguide/appstream-intro.html

34. POSTGRESQL RDS RESOURCES
User Guide
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/
Data Import Guide
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/PostgreSQL.Procedural.Importing.html
Common tasks, including setting up PostGIS geospatial extensions
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Appendix.PostgreSQL.CommonDBATasks.
html
RDS forum
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/forum.jspa?forumID=60