New Limited Keynote for Australian AWS Summit 2012, Sydney

1. News Limited
Craige Pendleton-Browne
Chief Technology Officer

2. Context
•News Ltd runs a single enterprise CMS platform
•Supporting 8 major web sites
•12 different critical systems
•Over 600m page impressions per month
•Approximately 2400 new assets created daily
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3. The Challenge
•Complex technology stack – development = 46 servers
•All configuration and deployment manual
•56 days and 6 teams to build a new environment
•Impact
– slow project start up
– Only run one major project at a time
– Lack of innovation
The Challenge
go from 56 days to 1 day in the cloud
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4. Current Status
•Virtual Private Cloud configured and working
•Configuration separated out and all systems packaged
•Semi automated build process implemented in EC2
•2 project environments up and running in EC2
•From 56 days to 3 days semi automated
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5. Current Status
•Developers can run up or tear down environments
•Two new projects starting this month with poof of concepts in the cloud
•Ability to stand up 8 distinct environments quickly
•By the end of the month reduce time to 6 hours
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6. Where to next
•An agreed corporate cloud governance model
•Seamlessly integrate cloud and physical environments
•Automated procedures for managing costs
•Move towards a devops model
•Move production to the cloud
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