TLA Managers | 5/17/13 | Steve Stern Building on Amazon Web Services Getting the discussion started
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TLA Managers | 5/17/13 | Steve Stern
Building on Amazon Web Services
Getting the discussion started
What is AWS?
“Amazon Web Services offers a complete set of infrastructure and application services that enable you to run virtually everything in the cloud: from enterprise applications and big data projects to social games and mobile apps.”
Key Features
Pay for what you use, sort of
Fixed capital expenses become demand driven expenses
Grow and shrink as necessary
Short lead times for standard applications
What can you buy?Virtual Servers (Elastic Cloud) with or without pre-build app stacks / CPU or GPU computing
Storage (S3) & Archiving (Glacier)
Automated Build (Beanstalk)
Global Network / CDN (Cloudfront)
Load Balancing
Database Services (from MySQL & SQL Server to Big Data)
Virtual Private Clouds with VPNs
Distributed DNS (Route 53)
Message Queueing / Emain / Push / Transcoding
Front End / Back End / API
Built on AWS
Netflix
Use case: iPhone APP Hosting
EC2 for computing
S3 for storage
RDS for database
SimpleDB for basic queries
CloudFront as CDN
Simple Queue Services to distribute processing
Management
Is this the “End of IT”?
Finding the experts
Security, Reliability, etc.
Modeling Accountability and Responsibility
Is it really a Lego model?
The usual rules apply
Little stuff (e.g., stand up a server) is easy
Big stuff is hard (e.g., clusters of distributed servers connected to databases with multiple points of fault tolerance)
There are models that are almost what you want
Parts are “mature”, but it’s always in flux
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