Amazon Web Services: The Frontier of Cloud Computing Conor Gilsenan Eric Dramstad udel.edu/~conorgil/cisc474 udel.edu/~dramstad/cisc474

Why the Cloud? Computing in the cloud prevents companies from reinventing the wheel.

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Think of this as your server's CPU http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Think of this as your server's CPU

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Think of this as your server's CPU http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Think of this as your server's CPU

Simple Storage Service (S3) Think of this as your server's disk space http://aws.amazon.com/s3/

Think of this as your server's disk space

SimpleDB Think of this as your server's query language http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/

Think of this as your server's query language

Simple Queue Service (SQS) Think of this as inter-process communication system http://aws.amazon.com/sqs/

Think of this as inter-process communication system

Cloud Front Think of this as a simple web server for static content http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

Think of this as a simple web server for static content

Reliability http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/wiki/CCID Stickiness Locked into one service Security Issues/Challenges

Reliability

http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/wiki/CCID

Stickiness

Locked into one service

Security

Political and Legal Issues Still beta Completely black boxed Definitely not for everyone Issues/Challenges Cont.

Political and Legal Issues

Still beta

Completely black boxed

Definitely not for everyone

Dropbox Drop a file into a folder on your Mac and instantly retrieve it on a Dropbox connected PC. https://www.getdropbox.com/

SmugMug After investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in its own data center, SmugMug needed a new hosting solution. http://www.smugmug.com/

Pros Cheap Scalable Virtual Hardware No maintenance Focus on developing cutting edge web apps Security Reliability “ Stickiness” Complexity of process Cons

Cheap

Scalable

Virtual Hardware

No maintenance

Focus on developing cutting edge web apps

Security

Reliability

“ Stickiness”

Complexity of process

Questions? Conor Gilsenan Eric Dramstad Slides Posted Online: udel.edu/~conorgil/cisc474 udel.edu/~dramstad/cisc474