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Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud 10 cents per CPU per hour Indus Khaitan July, 2007
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About Indus <ul><li>10+ years of Software Development & Technology Evangelism experience </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Worked for NEC, HP, Charles Schwab, Outride (acquired by Google) and Symantec </li></ul></ul><ul><li>http://www.khaitan.org/ </li></ul>
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About the Presentation <ul><li>Not endorsed by Amazon! </li></ul><ul><li>Brief Introduction to Utility Computing </li></ul><ul><li>Intermediate Level Introduction to Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) </li></ul><ul><li>Does not present technical details of how EC2 works internally </li></ul>
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What is Utility? <ul><li>Power Generation Companies produce Electricity </li></ul><ul><li>You Tap into the Distribution System </li></ul><ul><li>Flick a Switch, The Bulb goes “on”. Your “meter” starts running Switch it “off”, your “meter” rests </li></ul><ul><li>Get a Bill at the end of the month </li></ul>
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EC2: Utility Computing <ul><li>Pay per use </li></ul><ul><ul><li>10 cents per instance per hour </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>$72 per month + data transfer + storage (S3) </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Data Transfer at $0.20 per GB (Old Tiered Pricing) </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>S3 at $0.15 per GB per month </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><li>Elastic </li></ul><ul><ul><li>1~1000s of instance on demand via WebService calls </li></ul></ul>
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Who is using EC2: A sample <ul><li>Justin.TV </li></ul><ul><ul><li>3,500 simultaneous video streams with 1Gbps of b/w </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Slideshare </li></ul><ul><li>Powerset </li></ul><ul><ul><li>NLP Search Engine, 100s of instances for content analysis </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Dozens of Facebook applications </li></ul><ul><li>Probably your startup for application prototyping </li></ul>
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EC2: Virtual Instance <ul><li>Virtual Machine as a single instance having </li></ul><ul><ul><li>1.7GHz x86 Processor </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>1.5 GB RAM </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>160 GB Local Disk </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Powered by Xen </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Layers multiple VMs on top actual hardware </li></ul></ul>
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EC2: Steps of using an Instance <ul><li>Signup with Amazon WebServices and get the necessary credentials </li></ul><ul><li>Choose an Image to boot with </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Standard Images have Apache, mySQL, SSHD, etc. </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Several contributed public images </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Rails Public AMI (Mongrel, Rails 1.2.3, MySQL 5, etc.) </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><li>Boot the image </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Your usage meter starts! </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Configure the instance for SSH access </li></ul><ul><li>SSH to your instance and have fun! </li></ul>
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EC2: Gotchas <ul><li>Instances are ephemeral </li></ul><ul><ul><li>All data is lost if you shutdown </li></ul></ul><ul><li>160 GB of local disk </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Not suitable for big databases </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>S3 is not natively mounted </li></ul></ul><ul><li>No Native image of Windows </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Community has hacked it though </li></ul></ul>
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Future Directions <ul><li>Amazon working on enhancements </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Persistence </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Support for large databases </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Windows native images </li></ul></ul>
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Thanks! <ul><li>Hope you enjoyed the presentation! </li></ul><ul><li>Mail me at khaitan@gmail.com for questions on EC2 </li></ul><ul><li>This presentation at http://www.khaitan.org/mt </li></ul>
Editor's Notes
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Lake meade holds 28.5 million acre feet of water, 2000 MW of electricity
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