introduction to the cloud

Exploring AWS features and capabilities

introduction to
the AWS cloud
Steve Riley
Sr. Technical Program Manager
Amazon Web Services
steriley@amazon.com
@steveriley    @awscloud
http://stvrly.wordpress.com
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AWS exceeded
Amazon.com
AWS 30% > Amazon.com
AWS: 100,00 requests / sec
S3: 80 billion objects
SQS: 3,000 transactions / sec
your idea?
successful
product?
undifferentiated
heavy lifting
server hosting
contract negotiation
bandwidth management
purchase decisions
facility relocations
scalaing and managing physical growth
heterogeneous systems (can't be an expert)
legacy software
coordinating large teams
time
utilization
waste
customer
unhappiness
predicted
actual
one week
300
3,000
EC2
core business
everyday IT muck
30%
70%
core business
everyday IT muck
30%
70%
let's take a tour
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon Elastic Block Store
Amazon Elastic IP
AMIs and bundling
Security groups
Amazon Simple Storage Service
Amazon EC2
Small: 1 compute unit, 1.7 GB RAM, 160 GB disk, 32-bit
Large: 4 compute units, 7.5 GB RAM, 850 GB disk, 64-bit
Extra-large: 8 compute units, 15 GB RAM, 1690 GB disk, 64-bit
High-mem double extra-large: 13 compute units, 34.2 GB RAM, 850 GB disk, 64-bit
High-mem quadrouple extra-large: 26 compute units, 68.4 GB RAM, 1690 GB disk, 64-bit
High-CPU medium: 5 compute units, 1.7 GB RAM, 350 GB disk, 32-bit
High-CPU extra-large: 20 compute units, 7 GB RAM, 1690 GB disk, 64-bit
$0.12 / hr
$0.48 / hr
$0.96 / hr
$1.44 / hr
$2.88 / hr
$0.29 / hr
$1.16 / hr
software
Windows Server 2003 Data Center Edition
IIS, ASP.net
SQL Server Standard 2005
Windows Media Server
SharePoint Portal Server
AWS SDK for managing your cloud