1. Chapter 6 Warehouse-Scale Computers to Exploit Request-Level and Data-Level Parallelism Topic 11 Amazon Web Services
Prof. Zhang Gang
School of Computer Sci. & Tech.
Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R. China

2. 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
GHz AMD Opteron / Intel Xeon
Reliance on open source software
No guarantee of service
No contract required

3. Amazon Web Services
Price and characteristics