Brian Kaney from Vermonster gave an unofficial presentation on Amazon Web Services. He discussed why companies use cloud computing and introduced several AWS services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for launching virtual servers, Simple Storage Service (S3) for storage, Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling for scalability, Elastic MapReduce for distributed processing of big data, and CloudWatch for monitoring. He proposed demonstrations of automatically scaling a web application and processing earthquake data using various AWS services.