AWS Quick Start reference deployments help you rapidly deploy fully functional enterprise software on the AWS cloud, following AWS best practices for security and availability. An AWS CloudFormation template automates the deployment, and a deployment guide describes the architecture and implementation in detail. Quick Starts are modular and customizable; you can layer additional functionality on top or modify them for your own implementations.
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Deploy an enterprise workload on AWS in 15 minutes. If you'd like to do a trial run first, choose quick launch. This option uses a preconfigured Amazon Machine Image (AMI) so you can deploy the workload very quickly without having to build your system from scratch. For example, you can set up Lync Server 2013 in about 15 minutes with quick launch and test it for up to 60 days. You can choose the custom launch option when you're ready for production or if you want to customize your deployment. More about quick launches...
For general information about architecting Microsoft workloads on AWS, watch this presentation from the AWS re:Invent conference.
Published: August 2015
Deploys Web Application Proxy and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) on the AWS cloud. These two components of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 provide identity federation, single sign-on (SSO), reverse proxy, and pre-authentication services for publishing your web applications in AWS.
The Quick Start includes a deployment guide that describes the architecture for implementing Web Application Proxy and AD FS on AWS, and AWS CloudFormation templates that automate the deployment.
The AWS CloudFormation templates support two scenarios: deployment into a new Amazon VPC (view template), and deployment into an existing Amazon VPC and AD DS infrastructure (view template).
60-day trial license included
$5.50 per hour* (promotional credit available)
About 10 minutes to set up
Bring Your Own License
$5.50 per hour* (promotional credit available)
About 1.5 hours to set up
Published: June 2015
Helps you build a Microsoft Lync Server 2013 environment on the AWS cloud in a fault-tolerant and affordable way. Lync Server 2013 is a communications software platform that offers instant messaging (IM), presence, conferencing, and telephony solutions for small, medium, and large businesses.
The automated AWS CloudFormation template implements a small or medium-sized Lync Server environment. It deploys paired Lync Server 2013 Standard Edition pools across two Availability Zones to provide high availability and disaster recovery. The Quick Start deployment guide also provides sizing guidance and considerations for larger deployments with Lync Server Enterprise Edition.
60-day trial license included
$5 per hour* (promotional credit available)
About 15 minutes to set up
Bring Your Own License
$5 per hour after $10 initial setup*
(promotional credit available)
About 2 hours to set up
Published: January 2015
Updated: March 2015
Helps you deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 in a highly available architecture on the AWS cloud, using AWS services and best practices.
The Quick Start includes two automated AWS CloudFormation templates. The main template deploys Exchange Server 2013 with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in a new Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). A separate template deploys Exchange Server 2013 into an existing Amazon VPC, for customers who have already set up AD DS.
The automated AWS CloudFormation templates build the minimal infrastructure required to run Exchange Server 2013 on AWS with high availability for a small deployment that supports 250 mailboxes. The deployment guide provides guidance for two additional deployment scenarios (for 250 and 2,500 mailboxes) that support the Microsoft preferred architecture for Exchange Server. You can use any of these scenarios as a starting point for your own implementation.
60-day trial license included
$5.50 per hour* (promotional credit available)
About 15 minutes to set up
Bring Your Own License
$5.50 per hour* (promotional credit available)
About 3 hours to set up
Published: September 2014
Last updated: March 2015
Launches a Microsoft Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) pull or push server environment on the AWS cloud, using AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) with PowerShell DSC.
You can use the AWS CloudFormation template included in this guide as a point of reference for implementing your own configuration management solution, or you can deploy the environment automatically to test a fully configured PowerShell DSC pull or push server infrastructure. The deployment guide explains how to use AWS CloudFormation and PowerShell DSC to bootstrap your servers and applications from scratch, and how to make sure that your instances are resilient to configuration drift once your application stack has been deployed.
- Cost: Approximately $3.50 per hour, depending on configuration* (promotional credit available)
- Time to deploy: Approximately 1 hour
Published: August 2014
Last updated: April 2015
Helps you deploy Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 in a highly available architecture on the AWS cloud. The implementation includes a Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) infrastructure, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or 2014 instances configured in a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC), and multiple Amazon EC2 instances to participate in the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 farm. (If you're interested in deploying an earlier version of Microsoft SharePoint Server, see Microsoft SharePoint 2010 on AWS.)
The Quick Start includes AWS CloudFormation templates that enable you to choose an architecture that is sized for medium or large environments. The deployment guide discusses the architecture and implementation automated by this Quick Start, provides access to the templates and scripts for deploying the stack, and explains customization options.
60-day trial license included
$9 per hour* (promotional credit available)
About 15 minutes to set up
Bring Your Own License
$9 per hour after $25 initial setup*
(promotional credit available)
About 4 hours to set up
Published: July 2014
Last updated: April 2015
Implements a high availability solution built with Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server running on Amazon EC2, using the AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature of SQL Server Enterprise edition. The deployment includes Windows Server Active Directory with Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) and clustered SQL Server 2012 or 2014 instances on the AWS cloud. This infrastructure provides the underpinnings for many Microsoft technology-based solutions for the enterprise, including Microsoft SharePoint and .NET Framework applications.
The Quick Start includes an AWS CloudFormation template that automates the deployment. The deployment guide provides architectural considerations and configuration steps for running WSFC clusters in the AWS cloud, and instructions for configuring and testing the WSFC cluster and SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group.
60-day trial license included
$5.50 per hour* (promotional credit available)
About 15 minutes to set up
Bring Your Own License
$5.50 per hour after $15 initial setup*
(promotional credit available)
About 3 hours to set up
Published: April 2014
Last updated: May 2015
Deploys Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) on the AWS cloud. The RD Gateway uses the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) over HTTPS to establish a secure, encrypted connection between remote users on the Internet and Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows, without needing to configure a virtual private network (VPN) connection. This enables you to reduce the attack surface on your Microsoft Windows-based instances while providing a remote administration solution for administrators.
The Quick Start includes an AWS CloudFormation template that automates the creation of an RD Gateway instance in your AWS account. The deployment guide describes the architecture and implementation in detail.
60-day trial license included
$2 per hour* (promotional credit available)
About 15 minutes to set up
Bring Your Own License
$2 per hour* (promotional credit available)
About 1 hour to set up
Published: March 2014
Last updated: March 2015
Deploys Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on the AWS cloud. AD DS and Domain Name Server (DNS) are core Windows services that provide the foundation for many Microsoft-based solutions for the enterprise, including Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, and .NET Framework applications. The Quick Start is designed for organizations running workloads in the AWS cloud that require secure, low-latency connectivity to Active Directory Domain and DNS services.
The Quick Start includes a deployment guide that describes the architecture for implementing AD DS on AWS, and AWS CloudFormation templates that automate the deployment under your AWS account.
The AWS CloudFormation templates support two scenarios: deploying a new cloud-based AD DS (view template), and extending an existing on-premises AD DS deployment to the AWS cloud (view template).
60-day trial license included
$3 per hour* (promotional credit available)
About 15 minutes to set up
Bring Your Own License
$3 per hour* (promotional credit available)
About 1 hour to set up
Published: April 2015
Last updated: May 2015
Enables you to automatically deploy SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA, on the AWS cloud.
SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA, is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution designed for dynamically growing small and midsize businesses. This solution is powered by SAP HANA, which is an in-memory database management system that provides fast, predictable performance.
You can use the AWS CloudFormation templates included with the Quick Start to deploy SAP Business One either into a new Amazon VPC (view template) or into an existing Amazon VPC (view template) in your AWS account.
The Quick Start configures the Amazon VPC with two subnets (public and private), and sets up Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and network address translation (NAT) instances in the public subnet. On the private subnet, the Quick Start deploys SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Microsoft Windows Server instances, configures storage and other AWS resources, and installs the SAP HANA database and SAP Business One application components.
Choose View guide below to download the deployment guide. The guide discusses architectural considerations and configuration steps, and provides access to the templates and the automated launch process.
- Cost: $4.42 per hour* (promotional credit available)
- Time to deploy: Approximately 1.5 hours, plus additional time to download and stage the SAP media
Published: July 2014
Updated: June 2015
Deploys an SAP HANA cluster of up to 17 nodes on the AWS cloud, using AWS services such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC. You can choose either SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as your operating system.
SAP HANA is an in-memory relational database management system that supports both OLTP and OLAP workloads simultaneously on the same platform.
The Quick Start includes a deployment guide, which describes the architecture and the implementation, and AWS CloudFormation templates that automate the deployment. The Quick Start supports two scenarios: end-to-end deployment that builds the infrastructure from scratch (view template), and deployment of SAP HANA into an existing Amazon VPC (view template).
- Cost: Approximately $1.84-$4.23 per hour, depending on instance type* (promotional credit available)
- Time to deploy: About 25 minutes for single-node deployment; 35-60 minutes for multinode deployment
- See also: AWS re:Invent presentation
Published: September 2015
Helps you deploy Magento Community Edition on the AWS cloud. Magento is an open-source content management system for e-commerce websites. This automated deployment builds a cluster that runs Magento along with optional sample data, which lets you experiment with custom themes and view the web store.
The Quick Start includes a deployment guide that describes the Magento architecture on AWS, provides step-by-step instructions for deploying and configuring the software, and discusses design and performance considerations.
The Quick Start also includes AWS CloudFormation templates that automate two deployment options: The first template provides end-to-end deployment into a new Amazon VPC, and the second template deploys Magento into your existing AWS infrastructure.
- Cost: Depends on configuration; see the deployment guide for cost estimates (promotional credit available)
- Time to deploy: 15-30 minutes
Published: June 2015
Automates the deployment of Trend Micro Deep Security on the AWS cloud, using AWS services and best practices.
Trend Micro Deep Security is a host-based security product that provides intrusion detection and prevention, anti-malware, host firewall, file and system integrity monitoring, and log inspection modules in a single agent running in the guest operating system.
The Quick Start deploys Trend Micro Deep Security version 9.5 into an Amazon VPC using AMIs from the AWS Marketplace. The AWS CloudFormation templates automate two deployment options: The first template provides end-to-end deployment into a new Amazon VPC, and the second template deploys Deep Security components into your existing AWS infrastructure. Customization options include license type, instance types, module enablement, and enforcement mode.
In addition, the Quick Start includes sample code to show how you can use the Amazon EC2 API and the Deep Security API to ensure that every instance running within your AWS environment is being protected.
- Cost: Approximately $2.22 per hour* (promotional credit available)
- Time to deploy: Approximately 45 minutes
- See also: webcast (requires APN membership)
Published: April 2015
Helps you deploy MongoDB on the AWS cloud in a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective way, using AWS services and best practices.
MongoDB is an open source, NoSQL database that provides support for JSON-styled, document-oriented storage systems. It supports a flexible data model that enables you to store data of any structure, and provides a rich set of features, including full index support, sharding, and replication.
The Quick Start includes two automated AWS CloudFormation templates. The first template deploys MongoDB into a newly created Amazon VPC in your AWS account. The second template deploys MongoDB into an existing Amazon VPC, for customers who have already set up their AWS infrastructure.
Customization options include the MongoDB version (2.6 or 3.0), the number of replica sets (1 or 3), the number of shards (up to 3), the number of micro-shards per node, and storage types and sizes. The guide walks you through the deployment and configuration process.
- Cost: Depends on configuration; see the deployment guide for cost estimates (promotional credit available)
- Time to deploy: Approximately 15 minutes
- See also: webcast (requires APN membership)
Published: October 2014
Updated: May 2015
Helps you build a 12-node Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) cluster on the AWS cloud by integrating Cloudera Director with AWS services such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC. EDH enables you to store your data with the flexibility to run a variety of enterprise workloads--including batch processing, interactive SQL, enterprise search, and advanced analytics--while utilizing robust security, governance, data protection, and management.
This Quick Start helps you build the infrastructure to support Cloudera EDH in a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective way. It includes two automated AWS CloudFormation templates. The first template deploys Cloudera EDH into a newly created Amazon VPC in your AWS account. The second template deploys Cloudera EDH into an existing Amazon VPC, for customers who have already set up their AWS infrastructure.
The deployment guide discusses architectural considerations and configuration steps.
- Cost: Approximately $12-$82 per hour, depending on instance type (promotional credit available)
- Time to deploy: Approximately 30 minutes
* Prices for the Quick Starts shown on this page are based on the prices for the underlying AWS services. There is no additional cost for using these Quick Starts. Approximate pricing was calculated based on January 2015 prices for default Quick Start configurations and is subject to change. See the pricing pages for each AWS service you will be using in these Quick Starts for full details.
