The document summarizes a session about using Amazon's cloud computing services EC2 and S3. EC2 allows running virtual machines in Amazon's cloud, while S3 provides storage. Popular companies using AWS include Facebook, Google, and IBM. The session covered launching EC2 instances, configuring storage with S3, and tools for managing cloud resources. Provisioning cloud infrastructure with EC2 and S3 was described as easy.

1. Amazon EC2 and S3: Cloud computing in two easy steps In The Brain of Daniel Sikar Skills Matter – London, UK 01.02.2010

2. Skills Matter supports the Agile and Open Source developer community, by organising free events, training courses, conferences and by publishing thousands of podcasts on ideas and technologies that drive innovation.

3. Cloud players Amazon Web Services GoGrid Google App Engine Microsoft Azure Rackspace Cloud Yahoo Developer Network

4. Amazon EC2 and S3: Cloud computing in two easy steps EC2 – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud S3 – Amazon Simple Storage Service

5. What was the session about? About running virtual machines on the Amazon cloud.

6. Why would you want to do that? Be able to run virtual machines on the Amazon cloud.

7. What is a virtual machine?

8. Who is using AWS? Animoto Facebook Google IBM Microsoft Playfish Oracle

9. Who is using AWS? BitNami JumpBox rPath

10. “Attributes people like”: Abstract

11. On demand

12. Pay per use

13. Scalable

14. Scale up – adding resources to a node

15. Scale out – adding nodes

16. Resilient – no single point of failure

17. AWS Products & Services EC2 SimpleDB S3 CloudFront SQS Elastic MapReduce RDS Premium Support VPC FPS DevPay Mechanical Turk AWIS Alexa Top Sites FWS

18. The Cloud

23. Back to earth

24. AWS EC2 S3 Actions Launch instances

25. Configure firewall

26. Provision storage

27. Provision public IP addresses

28. Create/Store machine images

29. Tools AWS Command line tools

30. AWS Management Console

31. AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

32. Firefox add-ons

33. Perl EC2 S3 libraries, Python boto, etc

34. Remote access SSH Remote Desktop VNC

35. Who can access my instances?

36. Is AWS for real?

37. Amazon Online retail Fulfilment Web Services

38. Amazon.com