Learn how Snowball Edge and AWS Elemental can aid in Tactical Edge deployment scenarios. Examine specific use cases in Motion Imagery, and how hybrid cloud combined with AWS Media Services are enabling a next-generation FMV (full motion video) experience for Defense & Intelligence workflows.

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Rob Nolen, Sr. SA DoD
12 Sept 2019
Tactical Edge Solutions
Snowball Edge

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The Problem
Rapid technological change includes developments in advanced computing, big data analytics,
artificial intelligence, autonomy, robotics, miniaturization, additive manufacturing, directed energy,
and hypersonics—the very technologies that ensure we will be able to fight and win wars of the
future.
Ultimately, these technologies will change the character of war.
-Fmr. SecDef James Mattis

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The Problem
• Design and rapidly prototype/iterate on capabilities
• Securely deploy and test capabilities
• Platform consistency – test and deploy environments
should be identical
• Feedback loops
• How does data make its way back – huge sums collected
and thrown away
• How does capability evolve in days/weeks instead of years?

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Cloud Solutions
• Secure, agile and elastic development infrastructure
• Managed services for large scale data collection,
analysis
• Deployment automation and logistics

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AWS Tactical Edge
• Bringing cloud and data technology to the warfighter
• Denied/Degraded/Intermittent or Limited Connectivity
• Interoperate with existing technology
• Managed Services

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Scenarios
• Ship/Aircraft
• TOC/M-TOC or vehicular mount
• Deployed Forces in field

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Ad–hoc Networks
Dev Iteration
Data Lake
Analytics/ML/AI
Terrestrial Networks
Ground Station

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AWS Edge Technologies

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Snowball Edge

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What is Snowball Edge?
• Provide cloud capabilities with
ruggedized devices without network,
in D-DIL scenarios
• Logistics system to ensure error
proof shipping and delivery
• Hardware lifecycle maintenance and
management

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Snowball Edge Capabilities
Compute
• Up to 52
vCPU/208 GB
RAM for running
EC2 compute
applications
• 40 TB object
storage
Storage
• Large scale
object store
with 100s TB of
capacity,
deliverable as a
cluster of
devices
• 100 TB object
storage
GPU
• Onboard GPU
capability
providing NVIDIA
V100 GPU for
edge machine
learning inference
or training
• 40 TB object
storage

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Instance Configurations
• Instances are in t-shirt sizes
• Multiple instances per SBE
• GPU available to 1 sbe-g instance

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AWS Snowball Edge Services Generally Available
Storage Compute Security Networking
• S3 Object Storage
• Elastic Block Store
• EC2
• Greengrass
• Systems Manager*
• Identity and Access
Management
• CloudWatch*
• VPN/VPC
Connector
* Available only when connected to an AWS Region

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Use Cases
TOC/M-TOC
Apps
Bring cloud
based apps
on Snowball
for use in
deployment
scenarios
Intelligence/
Data
Large scale
data
analysis and
collection
capability in
small form
factor
AI/ML
ML inference
with GPU in
field
Disaster
Recovery
Rapid deploy
compute
clusters
Real Time
Video
EOINT-
mapping,
ISR/PED – FMV
storage/libary

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CONOPS for SBE use cases
• Development/garrison applications run in cloud
• Provide COI enclaves for rapid integration, dev, prototyping
• Quick deploy to representative hardware for testing
• Apps deployed to SBE and dispatched from Cloud for underway
• Cloud services sync machine images, data, other artifacts to SBE,
Amazon Logistics tail gets devices to embarkation point
• Deployed SBE runs disconnected, can sync to cloud using
application or some AWS tech if comms available
• Post deployment, SBE devices sent back to cloud, all data brought
into cloud deployments for analysis, garrison operations, further
iteration of capabilities.

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How To Leverage

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How To Leverage
• Encryption Keys
• Device Manifest
• Unlock
• AMIs
• Build images in cloud
• Deploy to SBE
• Shipping

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MATT CARTER, AWS ELEMENTAL
SR. SPECIALIZED SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
Government Video
from the Tactical
Edge to Enterprise
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

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John Lai
Solutions
Marketing
Manager
TECHNICAL
MARKETING
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
Barry Lauer
Sr. Director
Field Operations
- Federal
Damon Roach
Sr. Account
Manager
Fed Civilian
Mike Root
Sr. Account
Manager, DoD
PROFESSIONAL SERVICESSOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE
Carlos Frevert
Systems Dev
Manager
Scott Woods
Sr. Solutions
Architect
Fed Civilian
Devin Gingrich
Sr. Solutions
Architect
[ProServ]
Jeremy Craven
Sr. Solutions
Architect
[ProServ]
Matt Carter
Sr. Solutions
Architect
Defense &
Intel
Over 100 years of Video Experience
REGION BUILD
Erin Welsh
Global Practice
Manager
[ProServ]
AWS Elemental Federal Account Team

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Content
01 / About AWS Elemental
02 / Next generation Full-Motion Video/Motion Imaging technologies
03 / Products & Services overview
04 / Deployment architectures
05 / Build & Demo
06 / Q&A

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About AWS Elemental
Together AWS and AWS Elemental bring customers:
✓ Cost-effective and efficient scaling of video infrastructure
✓ Deeply integrated media-centric webservices on AWS
✓ Integrated solutions for “next-generation” deployment models
§ World’s leading cloud infrastructure
§ Secure, elastic, scalable, cost effective
§ Supports over 190 countries, 1M+ customers
§ Deep video processing expertise
§ Improve, monetize, deliver content
§ Proven solutions with 850+ customers

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Federal Market Segments
ISR Mission Video Disaster Recovery
Public Safety Educational/Training Government Affairs

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Evolution of Video
1920 ’30 ’40 ‘50 ’60 ‘70
1939
Television presented at World’s Fair
1927
Philo T. Farnsworth patents electronic television
1953
Color television introduced in U.S.
1962
First TV satellite launched
1969
Armstrong’s walk on the
moon watched by 600M
people
OnlineVideoAdoption
1984
Digital Video
(H.261)
1996
First public HD broadcast
2003
H.264/AVC
2009
DTV migration in U.S.
Apple invents HLS
2017
Broadcasters begin
cloud migration
2019
Industries
migrate critical
live workflows
AWS
Formed
CPUs fast enough
to process HD
video in real time
AWS Elemental
launches native
video services in
AWS
Management
Console
1997
Netflix is born
1999
TiVO
introduces
DVR for TV
2005
YouTube is born
2006
Amazon Prime
TV is born
2008
Hulu is born
2011
MPEG-DASH
released
Low latency &
ultra-low latency
streaming
2018
CMAF
published by
ISO/IEC
2016
Apple supports
fMP4 in HLS
‘80 ‘90 2000 ‘10 ‘15 ‘20
1939
Television presented at World’s Fair
1927
Philo T. Farnsworth patents electronic television
1953
Color television introduced in U.S.
1962
First TV satellite launched
1969
Armstrong’s walk on the
moon watched by 600M
people
*Dates shown may be approximate.

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Video is driving Public Sector transformation
Leading many
video cloud
pilots
Dynamic
infrastructure as
code
More
professionals seek
cloud practices
New
technologies
open possibilities
Aging static
infrastructure
Legacy formats,
protocols, &
architecture
Industry
mindshare is
cloud-focused
Government
mandates cloud
migration

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What is FMV?
[foo l - moh-shuh n - vid-ee-oh]
Full Motion Video
A term used within the military and
intelligence communities that implies a
narrow subset of Motion Imagery; one that
assumes geo-spatial metadata, commercial
image formats and playback rates. (see fig. 1)
See related:
Next-generation FMV
An AWS Elemental and cloud enabling
movement from legacy FMV to new adaptive
streaming technologies.
FIGURE 1
Noun

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9
CONSUMERS ARE DRIVING DEMAND FOR MORE
CONTENT, TO MORE DEVICES.
Powering the Next-generation Video Experience with
Cloud & Streaming Technologies
AWS
ELEMENTAL
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Alexandra Seeley
https://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/170713-N-JN784-033.JPG

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What is streaming video?
3 Mb/s
1s 1s 1s 1s 1s
2 Mb/s
1 Mb/s
SEGMENT DURATION
SEGMENTRATE
MANIFEST

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Products &
Services

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AWS Elemental Key Differentiators
Industry compliance
(SMPTE, MPEG, MISB)
Highly scalable
(Channel-based)
Security compliance On-prem & cloud
Software-based
encoding
US based business

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On-Prem and In-the-Cloud Solutions
FILE-BASED
ENCODING
LIVE
ENCODING
JUST-IN-TIME
PACKAGING ORIGINATION
SLATE
INSERTION
NETWORK
MGMT
AWS Elemental
MediaLive
AWS Elemental
MediaTailor
AWS Elemental
MediaStore
AWS Elemental
MediaPackage
AWS Elemental
MediaConvert
AWS Elemental
Server
AWS Elemental
Live
On
Premises
(Appliance or VM)
Cloud
Region
AWS Elemental
Conductor
AWS Elemental
Delta
AWS Elemental
Delta
AWS Elemental
Delta
AWS Elemental
MediaConnect
FMV
CONTRIBUTION

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Build Your Own FMV Workflows
§ AWS Media Services
are building blocks
which form the
foundation for cloud-
based video workflows
§ Combine with other
AWS services, to build
a complete solution
for delivery of live or
on-demand video
content.
Ingest
AWS Elemental
MediaPackage
AWS Elemental
MediaLive
Media Supply Chain
Contribution
AWS Elemental
Live
AWS
Snowball Edge
DAM & Archive
AWS Elemental
MediaConvert
Amazon
S3
AWS
Glacier
Distribution
Amazon
CloudFront
Amazon
Machine Learning
AWS Elemental
MediaConnect

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Deployment
Architectures

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AWS Elemental FMV Reference Architecture
Phase 1: Real-time PEDSensor System and/or
Ground Operations Center
Analyst Site
Phase 3: Post-process PED
AWS Elemental
MediaConnect
AWS Snowball
Edge
AWS Elemental
MediaLive
AWS Elemental
MediaConnect
AWS Elemental
MediaConvert
Amazon
Glacier
Analyst Station
ISR Virtual/Thick Client
Analyst Station
ISR Web Client
Analyst Station
ISR Web Client
UDP/IP
UDP/IP
or
SDI
Files
Files
Files
Amazon
EC2
Amazon
WorkSpaces
(Legacy PED Tools)
VPC
Amazon
EC2
(Web PED Tools)
VPC
Files
AWS Elemental
MediaStore
AWS Elemental
MediaPackage
Phase 2: Near real-time PED
Zixi /
RTP
AWS Elemental
Live
RTP/Zixi M2TS
RTP/UDP
ABR
ABR
ABR
ABR
Amazon
EC2
(Web PED Tools)
VPC
Files
Amazon S3

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AWS Snowball Edge for Hybrid/Edge Workloads
Brings AWS to tactical edge locations in D-DIL environment
• Local storage & compute (SO vs CO)
• 10GBase-T, 10/25Gb SFP28, and
40Gb QSFP+ networking
• Handles up to
200G impact
• Airdrop-able
• MIL-S-901D Grade B
• Meets FISMA High,
FedRAMP ITAR, CJIS, and
DoD SRG Impact Level 6
requirements
Operates on unconditioned
power and harsh
environments (0° to 45°C )
• Data secured with military-
grade encryption
• Designed to be operated by
non-technical personnel

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Snowball Edge for Air & Sea
GovCloud US

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FRAMEWORKS INTERFACES INFRASTRUCTURE
AI Services
Broadest and deepest set of capabilities
The Amazon ML Stack
VISION SPEECH LANGUAGE CHATBOTS FORECASTING RECOMMENDATIONS
ML Services
ML Frameworks + Infrastructure
P O L L Y T R A N S C R I B E T R A N S L A T E C O M P R E H E N D L E X F O R E C A S TR E K O G N I T I O N
I M A G E
R E K O G N I T I O N
V I D E O
T E X T R A C T P E R S O N A L I Z E
Ground Truth Notebooks Algorithms + Marketplace Reinforcement Learning Training Optimization Deployment Hosting
F P G A SE C 2 P 3
& P 3 D N
E C 2 G 4 E C 2 C 5 I N F E R E N T I AG R E E N G R A S S E L A S T I C
I N F E R E N C E
AMAZON SAGEMAKER

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3rd Party Solutions
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AWS enables end-to-end solutions built by third parties
Our partners provide solutions such as:
ü Content Management System (CMS) and dissemination solutions
ü Live channel creation & viewing, time-shifted playback, content search, Video-on-
Demand, clipping, and dissemination
ü Image processing and analytics capabilities
ü Searchable indexes of data, metadata generation and tagging of detected objects
ü PED capabilities for Test Range infrastructure mission environments
Please contact us to learn more about these and other relevant partner solutions.

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Build It!

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Contribution
Encoder
CDN
Reliable
Transport
Client
PROTOCOL?
FORMAT?
APPLICATION?
PROTOCOL?
CINCINNATI, OH WASHINGTON D.C.
Deliver a live stream to attendees at the AWS Federal Pop-Up Loft in Wash D.C. What is the
best way to architect this solution using Amazon Web Services?
AVAILABLE TOOLS
Packager
PROTOCOL?
Storage
TYPE?
ABR
Transcoder
FORMAT?
US-EAST-1
Operational Scenario

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Let’s build it!
AWS CLOUD REGION
AWS Elemental
MediaConnect
AWS Elemental
MediaLive
Aircraft & Sensor
AWS Elemental
Live Web Clients
ANALYST SITE
AWS Elemental
MediaPackage
GROUND CONTROL STATION
HD-SDI w/ KLV
Reliable
UDP
RTP ABR/
HTTPS
ABR/HTTPS
Amazon
Cloudfront
ABR/
HTTPS
Deliver a live stream to attendees at the AWS Federal Pop-Up Loft in Wash D.C. What is the
best way to architect this solution using Amazon Web Services?

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Video Delivery Pipeline Demo
TOC
Cloud
NOCContribution
Contribution
Contribution
Contribution
Distribution
Distribution
Distribution
Contribution: RTP, M2TS, HEVC
Distribution: TCP, ABR (DASH), AVC
Distribution
Source

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Which U.S. inventor patented the Electric Television Set? Philo Taylor Farnsworth
AWS Elemental offers On-prem and Cloud-based products and services? (T or F) True
What 3 factors make up Full Motion Video? Commercial Image Format, Playback Rate, Geospatial Metadata
When did AWS Elemental release Media Services? 11/2017
Name 3 mainstream ABR formats. HLS, MPEG-DASH, and CMAF are great examples
Which AWS Media Service is responsible for ABR encoding in the cloud? AWS Elemental Media Live
What is the difference between contribution and distribution encoding? System-to-system vs System-to-user
Knowledge Check

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https://aws.amazon.com/training/path-mediaservices/
Additional resources
https://aws.amazon.com/media/resources/government/

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Thank you!
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