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Introduction to AWS Storage
- The presenters (Rajesh, Rohan, and Boris) provide a high-level overview of the AWS storage portfolio and explain why data is important.
- They emphasize that the presentation is an introduction and encourage attendees to attend other sessions during the week that dive deeper into various AWS storage services.
- The presenters mention that the goal is to discuss how customers think about implementing cloud solutions, using common starting workloads as examples.
Customers' Cloud Journey
- Customers typically start their cloud journey by migrating their applications to AWS, often through a lift-and-shift approach.
- After the initial migration, customers continue to optimize their applications by leveraging additional services and innovations to modernize and improve them.
- Customers also focus on optimizing costs by right-sizing their deployments, using managed services, and leveraging cost optimization within each service.
Enterprise Applications on AWS
- Customers are moving their business-critical applications, such as databases, ERP solutions, and content management systems, to the AWS cloud.
- Common patterns include:
- Lift-and-shift migration to the cloud
- Refactoring and modernizing applications
- Leveraging AWS services like Amazon EBS, Amazon EC2, and Amazon FSX for optimal performance and cost-effectiveness
Structured Workloads on AWS
- Database workloads:
- Customers can choose from various deployment options, such as Amazon RDS, standalone EC2 instances, or failover clusters with FSX.
- The choice depends on the application's criticality, availability requirements, and TCO.
- VMware workloads:
- Customers can migrate their on-premises VMware workloads to AWS, leveraging services like Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, and Amazon EBS/FSX.
- This allows them to preserve their existing operational model and accelerate their migration to the cloud.
Data Lakes on Amazon S3
- Customers are looking to eliminate data silos and centralize their data by building data lakes on Amazon S3.
- S3 offers scalability, security, and integration with various AWS analytics and AI/ML services.
- Sweetgreen, a fast-casual restaurant chain, built a data lake on S3 to centralize data from multiple sources and comply with data privacy regulations.
- S3 storage classes allow customers to optimize costs based on their data access patterns, using features like S3 Intelligent Tiering.
Storage for AI and ML
- The presentation covers the AI and ML pipeline, which includes data centralization, data curation, model building and training, and model deployment.
- AWS offers services like Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock to support this pipeline.
- To optimize data access for GPU-intensive training, the presenters highlight the integration between Amazon S3 and Amazon FSX for Lustre.
- Adobe used this architecture to train their own Firefly family of generative AI models, benefiting from the high-performance data access.
Data Protection on AWS
- The presenters define data protection as the process of safeguarding important data from corruption, compromise, and loss, and providing the capability to restore the data.
- Customers can leverage AWS Backup, a fully managed data protection service, to centrally deploy and manage backup policies across various AWS services.
- The presenters share a customer case study with Santos Limited, an oil and gas company, that used AWS Backup to improve the accuracy, visibility, and cost-efficiency of their data protection.
Conclusion
- The presenters encourage attendees to provide feedback through the session survey and continue their learning journey by exploring the AWS Skill Builder website and ramp-up guides.
- They thank the audience for their time and availability during the lunch break and invite them to ask any remaining questions.