1. Amazon Web Services
The Basics

2. About - Sean Hull Scalability, Database Performance & Web Operations
EC2, Rackspace & Cloud Migrations
20 Years Professional Technology Experience
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3. Datacenter Evolution Raw Computing Power On-Demand
1990s - Sun
Early 2000s - Commodity Hardware
Since Cloud
Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS)
Raw Computing
Power On-Demand
Platform-As-A-Service(PaaS)

4. Raw or Cooked

5. 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

6. Cloud Challenges Performance - Shared Resources
SLAs & Server Reliability
Security Considerations
Database Considerations
New Paradigm & Learning Curve

7. What Types of Uses? Apps with Seasonal Traffic Patterns One-off Needs
Short-term Requirements
Augmenting Quickly
Dev & Test Environments

8. On-Demand & Provisioning
Larry Summers - “Preserving Optionality”
Spending Now Controlled by Software
Costs: Storage, Network, Instances, Elastic IPs

9. 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

10. Questions & Comments....
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11. Thank You