Introduction to Amazon Web Services

Presentation 1 of 2 courtesy of Zhiming Shen and Weijia Song.

In this talk, we are going to give an introduction to Amazon AWS – the biggest and most widely used cloud computing platform. We are going to show live demos of allocating, connecting, and using different AWS services including virtual machines (EC2), storage (S3), databases (RDS), and distributed computation platforms (Elastic MapReduce) etc.

Presented at SSW: https://cornell-ssw.github.io/meetings/2016-11-14

Transcript

1. Introduction to Amazon Web Services Zhiming Shen & Weijia Song 1
2. Agenda • Introduction • Using EC2 virtual machines • Identity & Access Management (IAM) • S3 storage • RDS database • Elastic MapReduce 2
3. Cloud is the Future Source: Microsoft Cloud Landscape Update, 2015 3
4. What is Cloud Computing? 4 Source: http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/introduction-to-amazon-web-services-7708257 Electricity Services Cloud Services
5. Why Cloud Computing? • Pay as you go • Elasticity • Agile • Cheap • Focus on your own business 5 Source: http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/introduction-to-amazon-web-services-7708257
6. Amazon Web Services (AWS) 6 Source: https://awsinsider.net/articles/2016/01/07/aws-launches-region-in-korea.aspx
7. Key Services of AWS • Compute • EC2, Auto Scaling etc. • Storage • S3 etc. • Database • RDS, DynamoDB etc. • Networking • VPC etc. • Analytics • Elastic MapReduce, Machine Learning etc. 7
8. Agenda • Introduction • Using EC2 virtual machines • Identity & Access Management (IAM) • S3 storage • RDS database • Elastic MapReduce 8