Cloud Aggregation: Smart Access to a Smarter Cloud

Name: Dominic AnschutzJob Title: Head of Cloud OperationsDate: 17th October 2012

Overview

The noise in the market is all about placing data in the cloud – security, compliance and risk. However, a good cloud strategy is underpinned with the network providing the access to cloud services and providers. How secure is the route to the cloud, is the infrastructure fit for purpose and is bandwidth scalable?

Definition

NIST Definition – version 15! ( National Institute of Standards and Technology)

• Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models and four deployment models.

Definition

NIST Definition – version 15! ( National Institute of Standards and Technology)

• Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models and four deployment models.

Overview

• For many, cloud computing has become synonymous with the internet

• The whole paradigm of cloud computing is built on the notion of accessing resources across a network

• According to studies, 70% of companies are reluctant to adopt cloud technology because of their concerns with security and privacy

• Organisations are looking for an inherently more secure, high-bandwidth, low latency route to their data than the public internet

Bandwidth consumption

S3 Growth

Source: Amazon

Bandwidth consumption

• An estimated one-third of the world's population is online now, a proportion that is sure to grow.

• More users, more devices that connect to networks, and more data-heavy services to ride over the pipes are causing a “bandwidth explosion”

Bandwidth Consumption….

• Some of the best numbers we have on bandwidth usage come from Cisco's Visual Networking Index

• Global IP traffic has increased eightfold over the past 5 years, and will increase threefold over the next 5 years.

• In 2016, the gigabyte equivalent of all movies ever made will cross global IP networks every 3 minutes. Global IP networks will deliver 12.5 petabytes every 5 minutes in 2016.

• It would take over 6 million years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks each month in 2016

• Annual global IP traffic will surpass the zettabyte threshold (1.3 zettabytes) by the end of 2016

Source: Cisco Visual Networking Index

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 BYTES

Mobile Data

• Globally, mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold between 2011 and 2016. Mobile data traffic will grow at a CAGR of 78 percent between 2011 and 2016, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month by 2016.

• Global mobile data traffic will grow three times faster than fixed IP traffic from 2011 to 2016. Global mobile data traffic was

• 2 percent of total IP traffic in 2011, and will be • 10 percent of total IP traffic in 2016.

Ethernet adoption

• The adoption of higher speed Ethernet server interconnects as the increasing demand for bandwidth drives current deployment of 10G Ethernet and accelerates adoption of emerging 40G and 100G Ethernet products.

The scalability, performance and relatively low cost makes Ethernet the clear choice of networking technology

Challenges

• Migration to Cloud • Migration between providers• High availability between sites• Choice of Cloud providers on-net• Bandwidth limitations• End-to-end SLA• Why Internet ?

– Expensive– No QOS

Why use Internet?

• Security • Performance • Control• Quality of Service• Cost

For cloud computing to truly become mainstream it’s time to rethink how organisations connect to cloud services. If cloud remains synonymous with the internet, then it will also remain synonymous with insecure and unreliable connectivity.

Summary

• Consistent and reliable network connection to your cloud services

• Rapid deployment of new services and applications• Secure and private connectivity - avoiding Internet traffic• Access to a wide range of cloud services and applications• Lower network costs by avoiding Internet transfer and

bandwidth charges• Increase performance by bypassing congested Internet

connections

Private vs. public

QUESTIONS?

Backup slides

What is AWS Direct Connect?

• AWS Direct Connect lets you establish a dedicated network connection between your network and one of the AWS Direct Connect locations

• Reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections.

• Using industry standard 802.1q VLANs, this dedicated connection can be partitioned into multiple logical connections.

• Logical connections can be reconfigured at any time to meet your changing needs.• Exponential-e one of 18 Global AWS Direct Connect Partners.

Highlights

• Reduces Your Bandwidth Costs– AWS Direct Connect reduces your network costs as you are charged at the reduced AWS

Direct Connect data transfer rate rather than Internet data transfer rates.• Consistent Network Performance

– Data is now routed which can provide a more consistent network experience.• Compatible with all AWS Services

– Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), – Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), – Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).

• Private Connectivity to your Amazon VPC – You can use AWS Direct Connect to establish a private logical connection from your on-

premise network directly to your Amazon VPC,.• Elastic

– AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to scale your connection to meet your needs. AWS Direct Connect provides 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps connections, and you can easily provision multiple connections if you need more capacity.

What is AWS Direct Connect?

• AWS Direct Connect lets you establish a dedicated network connection between your network and one of the AWS Direct Connect locations

• Reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections.

• Using industry standard 802.1q VLANs, this dedicated connection can be partitioned into multiple logical connections.

• Logical connections can be reconfigured at any time to meet your changing needs.• Exponential-e one of 18 Global AWS Direct Connect Partners.

Highlights

• Reduces Your Bandwidth Costs– AWS Direct Connect reduces your network costs as you are charged at the reduced AWS

Direct Connect data transfer rate rather than Internet data transfer rates.• Consistent Network Performance

– Data is now routed which can provide a more consistent network experience.• Compatible with all AWS Services

– Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), – Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), – Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).

• Private Connectivity to your Amazon VPC – You can use AWS Direct Connect to establish a private logical connection from your on-

premise network directly to your Amazon VPC,.• Elastic

– AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to scale your connection to meet your needs. AWS Direct Connect provides 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps connections, and you can easily provision multiple connections if you need more capacity.

Why Direct Connect?

• Predictable & reliable performance to your AWS cloud • Enablement of new services and applications• Increase Security through private connectivity • Lower network costs by avoiding Internet transfer and

bandwidth charges• Increase performance by bypassing congested Internet

connections

Is Amazon Secure?

• Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliant• ISO27001 • PCI DSS Level I Certification• HIPAA compliant Architecture• SAS70 (SOC 1) Type II Audit• FIISMA Moderate ATO’s• DIACAP MAC III-Sensitive• SOC 1/SSAE 16/ISAE 3402• FIPS 140-2

http://aws.amazon.com/security/

S3 Storage

• “Durable” S3 Storage

• SLA 99.999999999 %

• “If you store 10,000 objects with us, on average we may lose one of them every 10 million years or so. This storage is designed in such a way that we can sustain the concurrent loss of data in two separate storage facilities.”