Introduction to Amazon Web Services

In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced hosted web services intended to replace traditional IT infrastructure and the cloud computing era was born. With AWS, developers can build their applications on top of a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform that eliminates the need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance.

AWS provides a .Net SDK which makes it easy to build solutions for AWS infrastructure services, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB and more. In this talk, the basic components and concepts underlying AWS infrastructure will be explored as well as the tools and libraries available for .Net developers.

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1. Kevin McMahon! Chicago Alt.Net! Chicago, IL! June 20, 2012!
2. @klmcmahon! http://about.me/kevinmcmahon!
3. tl;dr!
4. WHY!
5. $!
6. The Problem(s)! Data Centers! Ops! Large capital expenditures and upfront investments!
7. The Promise! • Elastic Capacity! • Simple and fast deployments! • No capital expenditures or upfront investments! • Pay as you go! • Automated and reusable!
8. What is AWS! Reliable, scalable, low-cost! APIs! Use what you need! Core building blocks!
9. Types of Clouds! X as a Service! Public / Private!
10. Software as a Service! Platform as a Service! Infrastructure as a Service!
11. Public vs Private! Public! •  Less features, smaller scale! •  Less mature! •  Some have additional features or performance! Private! •  Higher costs! •  IT ops needs rather than devs!
12. HOW!
13. Storage! Compute! Database! Application Services! Networking! Content Delivery! Deployment & Management!
14. Storage! Compute! Database! Application Services! Networking! Content Delivery! Deployment & Management!
15. Regions! Edge Networks!
16. Storage! Simple Storage Service (S3)! Elastic Block Store (EBS)! Local on Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance!
17. Simple Storage Service (S3)! Key-Value Store! Simple API! NOT like your file system!
18. Key S3 Concepts! Object (File)! Bucket (Folder)! No block based access!
19. Simple Storage Service (S3)! Buckets can be in any region! Durable (99.999999999%)! Available (99.99%)!
20. Simple Storage Service (S3)! Pay as you go! Data is stored as is! Integrated with CDN! Data Protection!
21. Simple Storage Service (S3)! Backup! Archives! Content storing/sharing! Website hosting! Data Processing!
22. Elastic Block Store (EBS)! Persistent storage for EC2! Like a HDD for a physical server!
23. Elastic Block Store (EBS)! Multiple volumes can be attached to an instance! Persistent so can be shutdown / restarted!
24. Elastic Block Store (EBS)! Filesystems! Databases! Raw block devices!
25. Elastic Block Store (EBS)! Is not a SAN! Is multi-tenant! DO NOT use as backups!
26. Storage! Compute! Database! Application Services! Networking! Content Delivery! Deployment & Management!
27. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)! Amazon Machine Instances (AMI)! Instance! Network Security Model!
28. EC2 Pricing Models! On-demand! Reserved! Spot!
29. EC2 Pricing Models! Interservice bandwidth is free! Auto Scaling! Elastic Load Balancing!
30. Storage! Compute! Database! Application Services! Networking! Content Delivery! Deployment & Management!
31. Database! SimpleDB! DynamoDB! !
32. SimpleDB! Fast, scalable, simple! Non-relational database! Eventually consistent reads! Indexing and Querying!
33. DynamoDB! NoSQL service on SSDs! Replicated and scaled by the service automagically! Elastic MapReduce Integration!
34. Storage! Compute! Database! Application Services! Networking! Content Delivery! Deployment & Management!
35. Application Services! Simple Workflow Service (SWF)! CloudSearch! Simple Notification Service (SNS)! Simple Queue Service (SQS)!
36. SQS! Queues! Messages! Scalable!
37. Storage! Compute! Database! Application Services! Networking! Content Delivery! Deployment & Management!
38. Network! Virtual Private Cloud! Route 53! Amazon Direct Connect!
39. Storage! Compute! Database! Application Services! Networking! Content Delivery! Deployment & Management!
40. CloudFront! Uses global network of edge locations! Supports download, streaming and live streaming with Adobe FMS! !
41. Storage! Compute! Database! Application Services! Networking! Content Delivery! Deployment & Management!
42. Deployment & Management! Elastic BeanStalk! CloudFormation! CloudWatch! Identity and Access Management!
43. WHY NOT?!
44. DEMO!
45. RECAP!
46. Questions?!
47. THANKS!! @klmcmahon! http://about.me/kevinmcmahon!