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Siemens Convergence Creators

Smart Video Engine

AWS Cloud Setup

www.smart-video-engine.comSiemens Convergence Creators GmbH, 2016 All rights reserved

Siemens Convergence Creators - At one glance

Chosen Partner of

over 300

customers

in 70 countries across Industries

because of ….

Industry

experience of

over 5

decades

Teams of highly

experienced specialists

with unique branch

know-how, meshing

technologies to realize

the most complex

projects.

Investing in

Innovation -

37 granted

patents in 13

patent families

International

Footprint -

19 locationsin 11 countries


Smart Video Engine

Online Video Delivery from End 2 End


Smart Video Engine

Functional Overview and Components


Smart Video Engine on AWS

Questions for today

Why and

how?



Why?

Market challenges to cope with: Low upfront

investment/Support for OPEX

based business models

Worldwide reach with

standardized installation

processesMarket is sensitive to

operations costs

(including

maintenance/support)

Scalability from 10K

subscribers to millions

Quick system bringup



Why?

Internal challenges to cope with:

Support for continuous

development

Reusability of exisiting

software stack

Number of Engineering

Resources

Access to advanced

technology



How did we start?

Building up Expertise Building up AWS partnership



Challenge: Quick Bringup

Step 2: Automate everything

Step 1: Dockerize everything



Bringup: Nested CloudFormation Template


Short side step

Why Docker?

Lightweight,

build once, run everywhere

Dynamic Configuration

Very good AWS Support,

constantly improving

Optimized EC2 Resource

Utilization



Storage and DB Layer

Select the right AWS storage-option for each data usage pattern

RDS/PostgreSQL S3 for Media Assets/

Archiving



Scaling with ASG and ECS Auto Scaling

ECS Cluster / Auto Scaling group

Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2

Service 1

EC2 Instance

scaled by Auto

Scaling

Service 1

Added/Removed

On-Demand

Service 2

Amazon ECS

CloudWatch

AlarmAuto Scaling

• AWS Metrics (CPU, Memory)

• Custom Metrics (JMX Beans, etc.)

Service 1

Service scaled by

ECS Service Auto

Scaling



Backup Strategy

RDS/PostgreSQL

AWS Lambda is

triggering ECS

Amazon ECS

starts the

container

Amazon

RDS

RDS Manager

Container

Amazon S3

bucketEvent rule in

CloudWatch for

Scheduling DB

backup

*.sql-gzip

dump file

Container executes DB

dump and terminates

afterwards

2) Lambda Based Scheduled Backup

1) Full Utilization of RDS backup capabilities



Monitoring

CloudWatch

AWS service

metrics and

Alarms

Custom Metrics

from SVE

components



What are we currently doing

Ongoing: Optimize Deployment and Operation costs

Fully Functional*

Smart Video Engine

System

* Low user numbers, no high availability, On Demand Instance

<500$/per month



Final Scope



What are we currently doing

We actively monitor new and interesting

AWS services available

We plan to introduce more AWS services

step by step:

- Search

- Machine learning for Recommendations

- Alexa

- Analytics

- Elemental Integration



Summary

• Significantly reduced setup and operations costs

• Significantly reduced project realization costs

• Very fast system bring up

• Access to improvements in performance and scalability

• Reliable and scalable services

• Engineers like it!

• Move to AWS required considerable investment

We are a happy AWS Partner!


Smart Video Engine on AWS – Get in Touch

Robert Ruzitschka

Head of Architecture

Autokaderstrasse 29

1210 Vienna, Austria

Mobile: +43 (664) 80 117 45113

[email protected]

convergence-creators.siemens.com

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