Demo: Speed & Agility
Amazon Web Services defines six advantages to cloud computing. This projects demonstrates one of those advantages: Increase speed and agility.
In a cloud computing environment, new IT resources are only a click away, which means that you reduce the time to make those resources available to your developers from weeks to just minutes. This results in a dramatic increase in agility for the organization, since the cost and time it takes to experiment and develop is significantly lower.
Source: docs.aws.amazon.com
Traditional approach
In an on-premises datacenter, it can take weeks to provision new resources, due to various manual processes and interactions.
Demo #1: Manually deploying on EC2
The simplest (and most similar to the traditional approach) way to deploy an application would be to launch an EC2 instance and configure it as a normal VM. When you do this process manually it takes a couple of minutes to get up and running. Already much quicker than a couple of weeks.
Guide: 1-manually-deploy-ec2.md
Demo #2: Manually deploying with Docker on ECS
To avoid reconfiguring every instance, it is possible to create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). An alternative to is to create a Docker container image and use ECS. When manually building an image, it takes around a minute. However, this image can be used multiple times. A manual deployment can be done in a couple of seconds.
Guide: 2-manually-deploy-docker.md
Demo #3: Automatically deploying Docker on ECS
With a CI/CD pipeline it is possible to automate all the steps from Demo #2. The only manual action that is need, is a commit and push to a Git repository, which is most likely already part of the developer workflow. The pipeline will then build a new image and deploy it for you.