Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for Microsoft Windows Server

Mike SuttonTechnical Trainer

AWS Training & Certification

May 29, 2015

Traditional Computing Challenges

Heavy Up Front Expense

Poor Utilization

Slow

Costly

Why are people flocking to the cloud?

Capex to variable expense

Lower variable expense than on-premise

Elasticity

Better use of scarce resources

Agility Go global quickly

Most Expansive Technology Infrastructure Platform

What is EC2 for Windows?

Amazon EC2 for Windows

Resizable compute capacity in the AWS cloud

Scale up or down quickly, as needed

Pay for what you use

Familiar Microsoft Windows Server operating system

EC2 for Windows Benefits

Secure

Extensive

High-Performance

Cost-Effective Flexible

Reliable Familiar

Secure

Security-in-layers approach

Isolate infrastructure and workloads

Identity and access control

Auditing and compliance

Reliable

99.95% SLA

Multi-region synchronous replication

Uptime and performance monitoring

Low network variability

High-Performance

Enterprise-grade computing on-demand

Automation for both complex and routine tasks

Dedicated, low-latency network connections

Automated Scaling

Monitoring tools with user-defined thresholds

Familiar

Windows-based application support

Your own servers

Utilize existing VMs

License as you see fit

Use your existing management tools

Cost-Effective

Trade capital expense for variable expense

Benefit from massive economies of scale

Pay only for what you use

No long-term commitments

Bring your own licenses

Extensive

More than 40 services available

Broad ecosystem of partners

Third-party application marketplace

Continuous service improvement

Technical certifications for multiple skill levels

Flexible

Highly-customizable infrastructure

Variety of instance types

Maintain availability at the lowest cost

Wide variety of storage options

Getting Started Demo

To Launch Your Lab:• Go to: https://webinars-run.qwiklab.com/#section-4 by clicking on

the URL provided on your webinar screen• Click the blue “Launch Free Lab” button in the center of the page• Click the blue “Select” button in the upper right corner of the page• If you already have a qwikLABS account, you may sign in.• If you do not have an account, click “Create Account” and provide

the basic info requested, then click “Create a New Account”• Sign in• Click the green “Start Lab” button to begin, and copy and paste the

user name and password into your console log in window• Follow the step-by-step instructions provided• Move back to your webinar window to ask questions

Q & A

To ask a question, please type it in the box in the middle of the right side of your screen.

Important Links

To launch your lab: https://webinars-run.qwiklab.com/#section-4

For more information on Microsoft Windows Server on AWS, to take a Test Drive with a partner, to browse more training options, to talk to a cloud expert or to sign up for a free account :

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