Combining Amazon Web Services with Drupal case study: wikifonia.org

[email_address] www.wikifonia.org

Content workflow * upload musicXML * convert to lilypond format * render to pdf * convert to swf * store on filesystem & db Heavy job, approx 8 sec/page

Why Drupal ? http://drupal.org * extensible framework * revision control * (wiki) workflow * community features But how to combine with applications & storage?

Introducing Amazon Web Services * S3 (simple storage) * SQS (queue) * EC2 (computing cloud) http://aws.amazon.com

Integration: Drupal + AWS Step 1: storage on S3

Integration: Drupal + AWS Step 2: multiple jobs with SQS

Integration: Drupal + AWS Step 3: parallel jobs with EC2

Pricing You pay what you consume S3 : ~$0.15 per GB storage/bandwidth SQS : $0. 01 per 10.000 requests EC2 : $0.10 per hour More detailed pricing on http://aws.amazon.com

Drupal modules http:// drupal.org /project/ aws Amazon tools S3: Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer(S3Fox) EC2: Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2 Knowledge base http://developer.amazonwebservices.com ( list of public AMIs ) http://groups.drupal.org/amazon-web-services-s3-ec2

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