deploy a scalable website

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Best Practices in the Cloud:

Deploying a Scalable

Website

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Presenting• Michael Crandell – Founder, CEO• David Welch – Sr. Sales Engineer• Betsy Zikakis – VP, Marketing

Q&A• Hunter Williams – Sr. Account

Manager• Daniel Howard – Sr. Account Manager

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RightScale Introduction Why Cloud Computing? Scalable Website Case Studies Live Demo Q&A – Getting Started

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Agenda

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• 15,000 users, hundreds of customers

• Half a million servers launched

• Scaling events: 50-3500 servers 3 days, 7000 cores

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Cloud computingRightScale

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You just lostcustomers

Classic IT ProblemInfrastructureCost $

time

LargeCapital

Expenditure

OpportunityCost

PredictedDemand

TraditionalHardware

ActualDemand

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Solution: Managed CloudInfrastructureCost $

time

On DemandProvisioning

PredictedDemand

ActualDemand

AutomatedScaling

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AUTOMATION ARCHITECTUREAUTOMATION ARCHITECTURE

CLOUD-READY SOLUTIONS

CLOUD-READY SOLUTIONS

EXPERTISESERVICES

EXPERTISESERVICES

Cloud Management System

RIGHTSCRIPTS

MYSQL MGR

WEB SITE

GRID

Cloud ApplicationsCloud Applications

Amazon Rackspace Sun/Oracle Eucalyptus VMWare

Righ

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le

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Case Studies

• Web 2.0 Sites • Social Game Providers• Mobile Services and

Portals• Media Processing Sites

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Global reach Carrier-grade reliability Full 24/7, 365 support

Stock Quotes

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Technical flexibility Repeatable, ”clean-room” design promotes

stability and process Great sandbox for testing and

benchmarking

Beijing Olympics

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in 3.5 days50 to 3500 servers

Animoto on Facebook

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iFixit

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“We keep our website running fast. Over the course of dozens of large traffic events, we've learned a thing or two about handling large spikes in server traffic. Thanks to cloud computing and Amazon EC2, today we're able to dynamically scale our capacity to meet demand.”

iFixit

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Auto Scaling Requirements

MonitoringAlerts & Escalation

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Auto Scaling Requirements

Dynamic Configuration of Servers and DeploymentProcess AutomationLoad Balancing

MonitoringAlerts & Escalation

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Auto Scaling Requirements

DashboardAudit Trail

Dynamic Configuration of Servers and DeploymentProcess AutomationLoad Balancing

MonitoringAlerts & Escalation

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Autoscaling with RightScale

• Rules-based system• More than just launching an

instance– Complete system architecture– Auto configuration into cohesive

resilient cluster– Support for workflow and

lifecycle management

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• Rules-based, back-end batch processing

• Reduce and stabilize customer wait time

• Grow/shrink grid workers based on wait time or queue size

• Work with any type of grid task - content analysis, media transcoding, web crawling

Scale Back-end Servers with Grid

Edition

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RightScale Benefits

• Pre-defined, tested architectures

• Configurable scaling options

• Automation through the deployment lifecycle

• Portability to eliminate lock-in

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Q&A - Getting Started

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Best Practices in the Cloud:

Deploying a Scalable

Website