Cloud for Developers: Azure vs. Google App Engine vs. Amazon vs. AppHarbor

Software Developmentfor the Public CloudPlatforms: Azure vs.App Engine vs. AmazonSvetlin NakovTelerik Software Academy http://academy.telerik.com

Agenda The Cloud from Developers‘ Perspective Windows Azure Google App Engine (GAE) Amazon Web Services (AWS) AppHarbor 2

The Cloud from Developers Perspective

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What is Cloud?Cloud ≈ multiple hardware machines combine computing power and resources  Share them between multiple applications  To save costs and use resources more efficientlyPublic clouds  Provide computing resources on demand  Publicly in Internet  Paid or free of charge (to some limit)  Azure, Amazon AWS, Google App Engine, AppHarbor, Rackspace, Heroku, … 5

Why Cloud Matters?Microsoft Azure Cisco Cloud ApplicationsIBM Cloud and ServicesApple iCloud Intel Hybrid CloudOracle Public Cloud Dell Cloud Computing SolutionsSAP NetWeaver on Demand Adobe Creative CloudGoogle App Engine CA Cloud SolutionsAmazon Web Services Symantec.cloud servicesHP Cloud Services Salesforce Force.com Cloud Computing PlatformVMware Cloud Foundry EMC Atmos CloudThe Rackspace Cloud Delivery Platform 6

Cloud Computing ModelsInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)  Virtual machines in the cloud on demand  Users install the OS and software they needPlatform as a Service (PaaS)  Platform, services and APIs for developers  E.g. .NET + ASP.NET + WCF + SQL Azure  Java + JBoss + JSF + JPA + MongoDB  JavaScript + Node.js + MongoDB + RabbitMQSoftware as a Service (SaaS)  Hosted application on demand (e.g. WordPress or SugarCRM) 7

Cloud for DevelopersMoving to the cloud will require new skills  New paradigms and APIs  E.g. NoSQL databases and MapReduce  New platforms and technologies  New deployment modelThe cloud still supports your existing skills  Known technologies, e.g. ASP.NET and WCF  Your favorite programming languages  Like C#, Java and PHP  Relational databases and SQL 8

Cloud Architecturehe typical cloud architecture is multi-tier, SOA,highly-scalable and highly-available Load Balancer Computing Computing … Computing Node Node Node Data- Storage Back-End Other bases Services Services Services  At each tier different managed services, 9

Cloud Architecture (2)Computing Nodes  Host and run your applications  Different languages and frameworks  E.g. C# + ASP.NET MVC or PHP + Symfony  Stateless by designDatabases and Storage  Relational and NoSQL databases  Blob storage, file storage, CDNOther Services  Queues, notifications, logging, email, … 10

Windows Azure

Windows AzureMicrosoft Windows Azure  Fast-growing public cloud  Provides rich PaaS platform  Mainly for .NET developers  Supports all major .NET technologies  ASP.NET MVC, WCF, ADO.NET EF, WWF, …  Provides also Java, PHP and Node.js APIs  No free version, only 3 months trial  Bulgarian citizens cannot register! 12

Azure Architecture Azure Load Balancer Compute Compute Compute (Web role) (Worker role) (VM role) VM running Windows Windows VM IIS7 VM C# / .NET ASP.NET / Custom code / Java PHP / other software code SQL Tables Blobs Queues CDN Azure Other Azure / external services 13

Windows Azure ServicesWindows Azure Compute  Computing instances run Windows OS and applications (CPU + RAM + HDD)  Web role  Internet Information Services (IIS) machine for hosting Web applications and WCF services  Worker role  Long-running computations  VM role  Windows VM (non-persistent) 14

Windows Azure Services (2)Azure data storage services  Azure Table Storage  Distributed highly-scalable cloud database (stores entities with properties)  Azure Queue Storage  Message queue service  Azure Blobs / Drives  Blob / file storage  NTFS volumes 15

Windows Azure Services (3)SQL Azure  SQL Server in the cloud  Highly-available and scalable relational DBAzure Business Analytics  Create reports with tables, charts, maps, etc.Azure Caching  Distributed, in-memory, application cacheAzure CDN  Content delivery network 16

Azure PricingComputing Nodes  Shared CPU, 768 MB RAM  $0.02 / hour ($15 / month)  1 Core, 1.75 GB RAM  $0.12 / hour ($90 / month)Storage  $0.125 / GB + $0.01 / 10000 operationsSQL Azure Database  100 MB – $0.0067 / hour ($5 / month)  1 GB – $0.0133 / hour ($10 / month) 17

Windows Azure Live Demo

Google AppEngine (GAE)

Google App EngineGoogle App Engine (GAE)  Leading Java and Python PaaS public cloud  Infrastructure similar to the one driving GMail and Google Docs operated by Google  http://code.google.com/appengine/App Engine has a completely free version  Provides CPU / bandwidth / storage capable to serve 5 000 000 page views / month  Instant registration  Confirmation by SMS 20

App Engine Architecture Load Balancer (Google Front-End Server) App Engine Instances Backends Sandbox running JVM / Sandbox running Python interpreter JVM / Python Java code / Java Web Java code application / Python app Data Cloud Blob Map Tasks store SQL store Reduce queue Other App Engine / external services (Channel API, Memcache, Email, …) 21

App Engine ServicesApp Engine instances  Computing units that host the applications  Fully managed sandboxes (not VMs!)  Provide CPU + RAM + storage + language runtime  appengine.google.comApp Engine backends  Like the App Engine instances  But provides higher computing resources  Used for background processing 22

App Engine Services (2)App Engine datastores  Provide NoSQL schemaless object database  Supports transacts and a query-engine (GQL)  High-replication datastore (HRD)  Master-slave datastore (faster, less-reliable)Cloud SQL  Managed MySQL in App EngineBlobstore / Cloud Storage  Store files / blobs  Has with ACL and REST API 23

App Engine Services (3)MapReduce API  Highly-scalable parallel computing API for heavy computing tasks (based on Hadoop)Channel API  Push notifications for JavaScript applicationsTask Queues  Services for execution of background workMemcache  Distributed in-memory data cache 24

App Engine PricingOn-demand Frontend instances  1 instance free  $0.08 / hour ($60 / month)High Replication Datastore (HRD)  1 GB free  $0.24 / GB / month ($0.00032 / GB / hour)Each API has free quota and price per usage  Blobstore API: 5 GB free; $0.13 / GB / month  Datastore API: 50K free; $0.10 / 100k write operations 25

Google AppEngine (GAE) Live Demo

AmazonWeb Services

Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services (AWS)  The pioneer of the public clouds  Provides cloud platform and services from 2002  Provides IaaS and PaaS on demandAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)  Virtual machines on demand  Runs Windows / Linux / other OS  Several locations: US, EU, Japan, Brazil, …  http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ 28

AWS Architecture Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) EC2 Instances + Storage (EBS) Any OS and development platform C# / Java / PHP / Python / Ruby / … Any development framework (.NET / Java EE / Symfony / Zend / Django / Rails / Node.js) Dynamo RDB S3 EBS SQS SWF DB Other AWS / external services (ElastiCache, CloudFront CDN, SES, …) 29

AWS ServicesAmazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)  Virtual hard disk (HDD) volumes  Used with the EC2 to keep the OS file system  http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)  Host binary data (files, images, videos, etc.)  Accessible through the Web  With or without authentication  http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ 30

AWS Services (2)Amazon DynamoDB / SimpleDB  Managed NoSQL cloud database  Highly scalable, fault-tolerant  DynamoDB – newer & faster than SimpleDB  http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)  Managed MySQL and Oracle databases  Scalability, automated backup, replication  http://aws.amazon.com/rds/ 31

AWS Services (3)Other AWS services  Amazon SQS (message queue)  Amazon CloudFront (content delivery network)  Amazon ElastiCache (caching)  Amazon Route 53 (cloud DNS)  Amazon SES (email)Pricing  On-demand pricing (per hour / per GB)  1-year free trial (credit card required) 32

Amazon AWS PricingOn-Demand EC2 Instances  1 Core, 1.7 GB RAM, Linux  $0.08 / hour ($60 / month)  1 Core, 1.7 GB RAM, Windows  $0.115 / hour ($86 / month)Storage (EBS)  $0.10 / GB + $0.10 per 1 million requestsOracle Database (1 Core, 1.7 GB RAM)  DB instance: $0.155 / hour ($116 / month)  DB storage: paid like EBS storage 33

AppHarbor.NET Cloud Made Easy

AppHarborAppHarbor – cloud platform for .NET apps  Supports a classical .NET development stack  C#, .NET Framework, ASP.NET (Web Forms and MVC), WCF, WWF, ADO.NET Entity Framework, …  Deployment through Git / SVN / TFS  Automated build process (compilation + unit tests)  Build-in load balancing  Built on top of Amazon AWS  Rich set of add-on services 35

AppHarbor Architecture Load Balancer (Nginx) Web worker Background instances workers Managed IIS Managed Windows environment environment C# / ASP.NET MVC / C# code Web Forms / WCF Managed SQL MongoDB, IronMQ, Server / MySQL CouchDB RabitMQ Other AppHarbor Add-On Services 36

AppHarbor: Add-OnsAirbrake (error logging)Blitz (performance monitoring)CloudAMQP (RabbitMQ)Cloudant (CouchDB)CloudMailin (incoming email)Dedicated SQL ServerJustOneDB (NoSLQ database)Logentries (log management)Mailgun (email send / receive) 37

AppHarbor: Add-Ons (2)Memcacher (in-memory caching)MongoHQ (managed MongoDB)MongoLab (managed MongoDB)MySQL (shared MySQL DB)RavenHQ (NoSQL database)Redis To Go (key-value store)SendGrid (email delivery)StillAlive (app monitoring)Shared SQL Server (managed instance) 38

AppHarbor PricingAppHarbor free plan  1 Web worker instance per application  Unlimited applications  20 MB SQL Server + 20 MB MySQLPaid plans  $49 month per instance (Web worker or Background worker)  10 GB Shared SQL Server DB – $10 / month  10 GB Shared MySQL DB – $10 / month  Custom domain – $10 / month 39

AppHarbor Live Demo

More ResourcesFree Cloud Development Course  Each Wednesday, Telerik Software Academy Python  clouddevcourse.telerik.com 41

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