Amazon Web Services

A primer. Introduction to building and scaling a simple architecture on AWS.

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1. Amazon Web Services a primer
2. the cloud
3. source: http://www.orkron.com/free-texture-clouds
4. magic
5. source: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/streetview/
6. guarded by Storm Troopers & R2D2
7. source: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/
8. story time
9. lower Manhattan hurricane Sandy PEER1 data center
10. source: http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/services-still-on-backup-power-diesel-bucket-brigade-continues.html
11. source: http://status.squarespace.com/post/34701829766
12. source: Apple iOS 6 maps
13. source: http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/400-pm-changing-of-the-guard-still-on-backup-power.html
14. Squarespace
15. 100% uptime by lugging buckets of diesel fuel up 17 stories Squarespace
16. Stack Overflow
17. seamlessly failed over to their Oregon data center Stack Overflow
18. Trello
19. source: https://trello.com/
20. recreated their infrastructure on AWS Trello
21. what is AWS?
23. Infrastructure as a Service
24. virtualized environment for servers and services
25. easy to scale
26. delphi-facilitator
28. github.com/snay2/delphi-facilitator
29. recreating that system on AWS
30. Elastic Cloud Compute EC2
31. instance
32. Elastic Load Balancer ELB
33. instance load balancer instance instance
34. Relational Database Service RDS
35. instance load balancer instance instance RDS
36. demo time
38. using AWS yourself
39. Free Usage Tier
40. free for one year, 24/7: • one micro instance w/30 GB storage • one Elastic Load Balancer • one RDS instance w/20 GB data + backups • plus various others: ◦ S3 storage ◦ SimpleDB ◦ DynamoDB ◦ SQS ◦ SNS ◦ CloudWatch ◦ a bunch of bandwidth
41. Simple Storage Service S3
42. storing images for a blog, OpenPhoto, etc.
43. simple backups
44. long-term archival storage Glacier
45. off-site backups
46. source: http://console.aws.amazon.com/
47. aws.amazon.com
48. questions?