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What is RightScale?

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RightScale• ~250 staff

• October: opened office in Australia• HQ in Southern California• 25% of our people are “cloudies”• Founded 2006

• $47M venture capital invested

a startedup

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Credible

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RightScale defined Cloud Management• World’s largest public cloud management platform

• Managing cloud deployments globally for 6 years• 60,000+ users• More than 4.7M servers launched

• 12 supported cloud providers and counting

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ConceptualAbstracts the architecture to above the IaaS.

Abstracts cloud specifics.

Provision servers with dynamic inputs such as addresses (e.g. DNS, load balancer), processes (e.g. monitoring), user names and locations (e.g. logs, applications, databases)

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CONFIGURATION AUTOMATION GOVERNANCE

Private CloudsPublic Clouds

my network

my serversmy storage

Once abstracted, you gain remote control

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Amazon Web Services

Datapipe

Google Cloud Platform

HP Cloud

Singapore

Hong Kong

Tokyo

Dallas

DC Area

NYC AreaSF Area

Seattle

Chicago

Dublin

London Amsterdam

Seoul

Beijing

Hyderabad

Private CloudsPublic & Managed

Clouds

Oregon

São Paulo

SoftLayer

Tata

UnGeo

Windows Azure

Las Vegas

IDCF / Yahoo! Japan

Korea Telecom

Logicworks

Rackspace

Southeast

Midwest

Sydney

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RightScale Cloud Management

MultiCloud PlatformManage public, private, and hybrid

clouds

Configuration FrameworkProvision servers and execute scripts

with consistency

Automation EngineMonitor, alert, auto-scale, and

automate operations

MultiCloud Marketplace™Access cloud-ready, customizable

ServerTemplates™

Governance ControlsControl access and security, track

usage, and access logs

RightScale is a SaaS

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Cloud cost forecasting

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Clients

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Example RightScale clients• Animoto• PhotoMerchant (Australian company)• PBS broadcaster• Zynga

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“RightScale helped us scale from 40 servers to 4,000 servers in only 3 days! Without EC2 and RightScale, it would have been impossible to meet our processing requirements.

"We got the architecture right at the beginning."

Scaling control by RightScale. Compute by AWS.

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Reliability, Scalability, Visibility

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Key Technical Challenges5k – 10k High res images/hr2 million requests/hrZero unscheduled downtimeSpeed

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5k – 10k High Res Images/hrGenerate 20 previews per imageDo it all in secondsAuto ScalingQueue basedAutomatic spot instance bidding

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2 Million Requests / hrLoad balancingAuto scalingLoad basedCompletely automated

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Hybrid Cloud at Zynga

1,000 servers can be launched in 24 hours100x increase in infrastructure in 2 yearsShifted from 20% to 80% of workloads in zCloud in 1 year> 1.4 petabytes of data in their entire database> 10000 servers (the figure isn't public)24.5 trillion rows in their data warehouse (in 2011)

Zynga manages their public and hybrid cloud (“zCloud”) with RightScale

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PBS (the US broadcaster)Unique visitors: 18M /moPage views: 367M /moVideo streams: 93M /mo Mobile Apps• 27% of hours watched,

11% of streams

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PBS — current infrastructure• ~270 EC2 machines • 75 ELBs• 260 Elastic IPs • 5 AWS accounts • 52 RDS databases• 608 EBS volumes and many S3 buckets


Why

James Hamilton of AWS, at re:InventNot a RightScale talk, yet many of these issues are problems we solve

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For newer AWS users• Outage mitigation and continuity• Billing and chargeback• Security and compliance

• Pre-built AWS environments to get started quickly:• Deploy from a catalog of pre-built, tested, and proven architectures• Access entire solutions, that include fully functioning open source and ISV

architectures and software stacks• Out-of-the-box HA templates for MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL

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Application stack store• Published by RightScale, partners, and users• Versioned and supported

License management• ISV single billing and pay-per-hour billing • Open source

Marketplace

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App & Web Servers

Community

ISV Partners

RightScale

MultiCloud MarketplaceCloud-ready stacks Pre-built by our ecosystem

Databases & Caches

And more…

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More experienced AWS users• Structure and Visualise Systems

• Organize AWS resources and visualize cross dependencies• Manage and monitor AWS resources in the context of the applications

they support by organising groups into a “Deployment”

• Control Diverse Environments• Manage many AWS accounts• Logically organise multiple AWS accounts and users in groups.

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More experienced AWS users• Operate Efficiently

• Lifecycle management from development to production• Develop in an environment that looks like production, cloning systems

• Orchestrate large and complex environments• Take bulk actions on AWS instances and volumes, including setting

alarms and auto-scaling, running scripts, and applying patches.• Orchestrate resources within a deployment to enable custom launch

sequences, backup and failover, code pushes, and more.

Capacity management• Auto-scaling with complex launch and decommision rules

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Automation and Monitoring Engine• Application-level and server

monitoring• Alerts and escalations

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Mature user• Survive staff turnover:

• Self-documenting with modular components you to share standards as users change

• Achieve Security and Compliance:• Audit change history, audit security groups, and control configuration

versions to help ensure accountability.

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Governance ControlsIdentity and access management• Authentication, roles, permissions• Umbrella accounts and sharing

Usage and cost management• Cost tracking and quotas• Real-time run rate projections

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Giri Fox@girifox [email protected]

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