Getting Started with Amazon Web Services
• George Reese
• Founder and CTO of enStratus
• Author of
Cloud Application Architectures
• Unanswered questions? Try Twitter:
@GeorgeReese
• Agenda
• Amazon Web Services and core terminology
• Interacting with EC2, S3, and CloudFront
• Building a real world infrastructure on AWS
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Amazon Web Services
• Amazon EC2
• Amazon S3
• Amazon SQS
• Amazon SimpleDB
• Amazon CloudFront
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Terminology
• Instance
• Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Elastic IP Addresses
• Elastic Block Storage
• Snapshots
• Regions and Availability Zones
• Security Groups
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Network Security
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A Real World Cloud Infrastructure
• The Raw \"Hardware\"
• Amazon EC2 + S3 (+ SimpleDB + SQS + CloudFront)
• Competitors: Rackspace, GoGrid
• Deployment and configuration tools
• Monitoring and management tools
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Applications for the cloud
• The Amazon cloud does not support broadcast & multicast
• A Common Web Application
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