aws re:invent 2016: extra, extra! news uk saves money with hourly amazon workspaces, read all about...
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© 2016, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Salman Paracha, Product Manager, AWS
Rich Perez, Cloud & EUC Infrastructure Manager, News UK
November 30, 2016
Extra, Extra! News UK Saves Money with
Hourly Amazon WorkSpaces, Read All
About It!
BAP202
What to Expect from the Session
1. Emerging trends in business productivity
2. Overview of Amazon WorkSpaces
3. Save on costs with monthly and hourly billing, and serve more use cases
4. Demo – how it works
5. How does NewsUK use Amazon WorkSpaces to solve a unique business need.
6. Recap
The changing landscape of business
What’s not working?
Personal Computers
Manage inventory
Secure endpoints
BYOD is complicated
Data must be backed up
Expensive to scale
On-Premises VDI
Upfront investment
Weeks to deploy
Requires management
Servers must be secured
Expensive to scale
Personal
devicesSupport contract
workers
Access for
mobile workersData security Agility
Amazon WorkSpaces – Managed Cloud Desktops
Scale &Secure
Pay-as-you-goSimple to deploy and
manage
Highly Interactive Secure
Desktops Your Users Will Love
consistent performance
Flexible Billing Options
HourlyMonthly
Best For
Full-time employees
Simplifying your AWS bill
Instant access
Running scheduled tasks
Best For
Part-time employees
Optimizing your AWS bill
Quick access
Run ad hoc tasks
NewsUK – Customer Case Study
NewsUK titles and their
websites reach 72% of all
adults in Britain
NewsUK accounts for 34% of
total national newspaper
advertising revenue in UK
Printing presses are capable
of churning out 86,000
copies in full colour every
hour
The Sunday Times Wine
Club sells nearly £90m of
wine to over 304,000
customer per year
NewsUK – Why Workspaces
Secure access to internal
resources
Scalability to support
our DR model
Use our existing tool set
to manage the estate
Accessible on multiple
devices
Billing options equals
savings
Avoid CapEx spend
NewsUK – Intended Use Cases
Monthly
1. Full-time access to internal resources - 26% of our users
Hourly/ Auto-Stop
2. External support partners that require periodic access – 15%
3. Employees that require intermittent access to internal resources – 55-60%
4. Business continuity solution – 200 users
Moving Forward
• Complete UAT testing for specific use cases
• Disaster recovery testing
• Additional regions for latency sensitive workloads
• Rollout based on key roadmap Items
• Working with AWS on complex use cases
Remember, Amazon WorkSpaces…
• Provides fast, secure desktops with consistent performance users will love
• Simplifies desktop management
• Scales globally within minutes
• Plays well with existing tools
• Provides flexibility and agility
• Lowers complexity and cost