Presented at the Institutional Web Management Workshop at the University of Essex, Colchester UK

1. Using Amazon Web Services

2. Welcome!

3. A little about me Assistant Director of Public Affairs at Allegheny College NITLE Technology Fellow http://highedwebtech.com @mrichwalsky on Twitter

5. What We’ll Talk About Today Quick Overview of the cloud Examples Hands-on

6. Quick poll Who’s using cloud services today?

7. Examining the Cloudscape

8. What is the cloud? Use resources only as you need them Pay as you go Scale up and down quickly and easily

9. What is the cloud? Use external infrastructure to solve internal technology issues and needs.

10. What is the cloud? It can cost less to take advantage of existing infrastructure then building your own from scratch, especially for short-term projects.

12. An Example Fundraising Video Mailing list of 45,000 people Challenge: Get the video served quickly and economically to the audience Address both the initial burst + the long tail.

13. Who are the major players in this space?

14. Big Players

15. Lots of little folks

16. You might be in the clouds already

17. How do we use this stuff in highered?

18. What we’re doing at Allegheny We moved our podcast and video hosting to Amazon S3 in 2007 Served admissions + fundraising videos Served videos for our partnership with NY Times Audio, video and SWF hosting for our online tour

19. What we’re doing at Allegheny Backups At least in our web/public affairs group Looking at campus-wide solutions Misc. web hosting PDF, Javascripts, CSS, Image Galleries Email Outsourcing Google Apps for Education Campaign Monitor for marketing

20. Does the cloud make sense for your project? Duration of project Type of service needed The cloud is better at some things than others Amount of data to move May be cist oe

21. Activate your Amazon Web Services Account

22. Hands-on

24. Allow the world to access the file you post online

25. Tell S3 you want the file to live in the US or EU

27. Access via browser plugins like S3 Fox

28. FTP programs

31. Create a bucket

32. Upload a file

33. Set file permissions

35. Upload the AMI into Amazon S3. Amazon EC2 provides tools that make storing the AMI simple. Amazon S3 provides a safe, reliable and fast repository to store your images.

36. Use Amazon EC2 web service to configure security and network access.

37. Choose which instance type(s) and operating system you want, then start, terminate, and monitor as many instances of your AMI as needed, using the web service APIs or the variety of management tools provided.

39. Tell Amazon where you want them

40. Pay for what you use

42. 6/4/09 EC2 in Plain English

44. Create Key pair

45. Convert with PuTTY if neccessary

46. Choose AMI

47. Set preferences + Launch

48. Connect via SSH