Chapter 6 Warehouse-Scale Computers to Exploit Request-Level and Data-Level Parallelism Topic 11 Amazon Web Services Prof. Zhang Gang gzhang@tju.edu.cn School of Computer Sci. & Tech. Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R. China
Amazon Web Services Virtual Machines Very low cost x-86 commodity computers Linux OS Xen virtual machine Very low cost $0.10 per hour per instance in 2006 An instance = one Virtual Machine Allocated two instances per core on a multicore server 1.0-1.2GHz AMD Opteron / Intel Xeon Reliance on open source software No guarantee of service No contract required
Amazon Web Services Price and characteristics