Amazon Web Services The Basics
About - Sean Hull Scalability, Database Performance & Web Operations EC2, Rackspace & Cloud Migrations 20 Years Professional Technology Experience hullsean @ GMAIL.com www.iheavy.com/blog/ www.twitter.com/hullsean
Datacenter Evolution Raw Computing Power On-Demand 1990s - Sun Early 2000s - Commodity Hardware Since 2008 - Cloud Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) Raw Computing Power On-Demand Platform-As-A-Service(PaaS)
Raw or Cooked
Cloud Strengths On-demand Compute Power Low Up-front Costs Autoscaling - Hootsuite, Zynga, Animoto Easier Disaster Recovery & Compromise Response Disciplined Deployments, IaaS & Automation Availability Zones & Regions
Cloud Challenges Performance - Shared Resources SLAs & Server Reliability Security Considerations Database Considerations New Paradigm & Learning Curve
What Types of Uses? Apps with Seasonal Traffic Patterns One-off Needs Short-term Requirements Augmenting Quickly Dev & Test Environments
On-Demand & Provisioning Larry Summers - “Preserving Optionality” Spending Now Controlled by Software Costs: Storage, Network, Instances, Elastic IPs
And In Summary Do you have existing investments in physical servers? Hybrid approach - Slow cautious adoption Is your app subject to seasonal traffic patterns? The cloud is uniquely suited to your needs Do you spend a lot on DR Systems? Scripted EC2 deployments could save big
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