Day of Cloud: Amazon EC2

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One of five presentations at Chicago's Day of Cloud mini-conference. Chris McAvoy (http://www.psclistens.com) demonstrates cloud computing with Amazon services.

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Day of Cloud: Amazon EC2 — Presentation Transcript

Amazon Cloud Services

Chris McAvoy

Vice-President, Open Source

PSC Group LLC

Agenda

Services Overview

Case Studies

Techniques

Questions

We’ll talk about

API & Python boto library

S3 & CloudFront

SimpleDB (briefly)

Simple Queue Service (briefly)

Elastic Compute Cloud

We won’t talk about

e-commerce / fulfillment API

Elastic MapReduce

Mechanical Turk

Services

Storage

Wildly popular

Both secure and public storage

Lots of support (django pluggable storage)

S3 Pricing

CloudFront

Content Distribution Network (CDN)

Allows distribution of S3 hosted files

SimpleDB

No-SQL (but, a SQL like interface)

Erlang

Schema-less

Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Hard to find examples of people using it

EC2

By far the most exciting Amazon cloud service

Windows & Linux on-demand servers

Support from IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Redhat, Oracle

Virtual Private Cloud

Amazon Machine Image

Not persistent!

Windows / Linux

Most flavors of Linux

Use prebuilt images, or build your own

Many images supported by large vendors

EC2 Pricing Small 1.7 gb / 1cpu $0.10 $72 Large 7.5 gb / 4 cpu $0.40 $288 X Large 15gb / 8 cpu $0.80 $576 High CPU 1.7 gb / 5 cpu $0.20 $144 High CPU X Large 7 gb / 20 cpu $0.80 $576

Elastic IP

Static IP

Elastic sounds cloudier than static

Elastic Block Store

Persistent disk

Again, cloudy sounding

Elastic Load Balancer

Load balancer

You can’t associate elastic ip’s with the load balancer

boto

code.google.com/p/boto

Python based library for accessing AWS services

Well maintained, easy to use

Case Studies

Crains

Social Web Manager

Techniques

Amazon Web Console

RightScale

Roll Your Own

Questions?

[email_address]

http://www.psclistens.com

http://weblog.lonelylion.com

http://github.com/cmcavoy/Day-of-Cloud-AWS-Examples ( http://bit.ly/rn4GP )

@cmcavoy

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