This document outlines a project on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform. It begins with an introduction to AWS, describing how it was launched in 2006 as a cloud services platform providing on-demand computing resources. The document then covers AWS' global infrastructure, including availability zones and edge locations. It also details several AWS cloud services such as EC2, S3, IAM, and CloudFront. Features and benefits of AWS like scalability, security and pay-as-you-go pricing model are highlighted. Finally, the document analyzes an example cloud architecture usage case and provides a critical evaluation of AWS outages.

1. Jordan University – Computer Engineering
Department
Distributed System Project
Supervisor: Dr. Ghieth Abandah
Student: Aieshah F. Almaslam
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2. Outline
 AWS Introduction
 AWS Global Infrastructure
 AWS Cloud Services
 AWS Features & Benefits
 AWS Cloud Architecture (use case)
 Conclusion & Critical Evaluation
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3. AWS Introduction
 Amazon.com is the largest online store right
now, it was started by Jeff Bezos in 1995.
 AWS Cloud Services was lunched in 2006.
 AWS is a collection of various web services
that together make up a cloud computing
platform.
 AWS used pay-as-you-use cloud computing
services.
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4. AWS Clients
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5. Outline
 AWS Introduction
 AWS Global Infrastructure
 AWS Cloud Services
 AWS Features & Benefits
 AWS Cloud Architecture (use case)
 Conclusion & Critical Evaluation
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6. AWS Global Infrastructure
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7. AWS Global Infrastructure
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2 Particular Services for Edge Location:
DNS service (Amazon Route53)
Content delivery (Amazon CloudFront)

8. Outline
 AWS Introduction
 AWS Global Infrastructure
 AWS Cloud Services
 AWS Features & Benefits
 AWS Cloud Architecture (use case)
 Conclusion & Critical Evaluation
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AWS Cloud Services
AWS offers different types of services:
 Compute Services
 Storage Services
 Databases Services
 Networking & CDN Services
 Application Services
 Deployment & Management Services

10. 10
AWS Cloud Services

11. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2
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EC2 is a web service that
provides:
 Resizable compute capacity, up & Down.
 Complete control of resources from your OS.
 Wide range of Instance type, that include
different combinations of:
CPU, Memory, Storage and Networking Capacity

12. Amazon Machine Image AMI
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AMI is simple environment provides tools to set up
and boot any type of instances.
Customers can use:
Preconfigured AMI, or
Create their own AMI

13. Amazon Elastic Block store EBS
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EBS can be used as:
1) Persistent block storage for EC2
2)EC2 instances boot partition
Persist independently from the life
of EC2 instances.
Automatically replicated in a single
AZ.

14. Amazon CloudWatch
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CloudWatch is a web service that provides
monitoring for all AWS cloud resources and
applications.
CPU Utilizations
Disk reads & writes
 other network metrics

15. Amazon Elastic Load Balancer ELB
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Distribute incoming application
traffic across EC2 instances.
Detect unhealthy instances and
reroute traffic to healthy one.

16. Amazon Elastic IP
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 Static IP Addresses
 Associated with a customer account
not a particular instance

17. Amazon Simple Storage Service S3
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 Data storage infrastructure,
supports by tens of thousands of
computer systems distributed around the
world.
 Store, retrieve any amount of data
at anytime from anywhere.
 Read, write & delete objects from
1byte to 5terabyte.
 buckets as folders with unique name.
 Replication & Secure symmetric-key
encryption supported.

18. Amazon Route53
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 Domain Name System (DNS) web
service.
 Routes end users to internet
applications (inside or outside
AWS).
 Map URLs to IP addresses.
 Persist on Edge Locations.

19. Amazon CloudFront
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 Web service for content delivery
(static or streaming content)
 Using global networks of edge
locations.
 Objects Request routed to the
nearest edge location.

20. Amazon Identity & Access
Management IAM
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 Securely control access for AWS
services
 Assign users & Groups with many
security credentials: Unique
access Keys or Passwords

21. Outline
 AWS Introduction
 AWS Global Infrastructure
 AWS Cloud Services
 AWS Features & Benefits
 AWS Cloud Architecture (use case)
 Conclusion & Critical Evaluation
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22. AWS Features
High Availability by Availability Zones
Auto Scaling & Elasticity by CloudWatch
Parallel Processing by Elastic Load Balancer
Transparency by Elastic IP
Security by Encryption, IAM and HTTPs Access
Fault tolerance & Disaster Recovery by Replication,
Snapshots &VPC in Multi AZs & Regions
Low latency by Edge Locations & CDN
Inexpensive pricing by ” Pay-as-you-go” model
Some of free Use by AWS freeTier 22

23. AWS Free Usage Tier
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24. Outline
 AWS Introduction
 AWS Global Infrastructure
 AWS Cloud Services
 AWS Features & Benefits
 AWS Cloud Architecture (use case)
 Conclusion & Critical Evaluation
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25. Example of AWS Cloud Architecture
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26. Outline
 AWS Introduction
 AWS Global Infrastructure
 AWS Cloud Services
 AWS Features & Benefits
 AWS Cloud Architecture (use case)
 Conclusion & Critical Evaluation
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27. Conclusion & Critical
Evaluation
AWS suffers from many outages:
On April 20, 2011, EBS service became "stuck"
and were unable to read/write requests.
On June 29, 2012, several websites were taken
offline, storm in in NorthernVirginia.
On October 22, 2012, a major outage occurred.
1) AWS should ensure resolving these problems
without outage happens.
2)AWS should focus on building tools that will
make application plugging to the cloud easily. 27

28. Any Question?
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