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How Did Amazon Get in to Cloud Computing? • We’d been working on it for over a decade • Development of a platform to enable sellers on the Amazon global infrastructure • Internal need for centralized, scalable deployment environment for applications •...
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It's your job to invent on their behalf. You need to listen to customers. You need to invent on their behalf. Kindle, EC2 would not have been developed if we did not have an inventive culture.” - Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO, Amazon.com...
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Attributes of Cloud Computing No Up-Front Capital Pay Only for What Low Cost Expense You Use Self-Service Improve Agility & Time- Easily Scale Up and Infrastructure to-Market Down Deploy...
What’s the Difference? Cloud-Generation Last-Generation • Empowered users • IT department • Automated Setup • Manual Setup • Hours/Days/Weeks • Seconds/Minutes • Error-prone • Scripted & repeatable • Small scale • Any scale...
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AWS PLATFORM Cloud-Powered Applications Management & Administration Administration Identity & Access Deployment Monitoring Console Application Platform Services Content Distribution Messaging Parallel Processing Libraries & SDKs Foundation Services Compute Storage Database Networking Global Infrastructure Regions Edge Locations Availability Zones...
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Regions and Availability Zones • Region – One of 8 distinct physical locations: – Northern Virginia, San Francisco, Oregon, AWS GovCloud (US), Tokyo, Singapore, Brazil, Ireland • Availability Zone: – Physical infrastructure (1 or more data centers) – 2 or more AZ’s per Region –...
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EC2 Instance • Amazon EC2: A Virtual Server in the Cloud • Provision and boot new servers in minutes • Boot from AMI (Amazon Machine Image) • Your choice of Linux or Windows • Quickly scale capacity up or down •...
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EC2 Security Group • Virtual firewall • Control access to instance • Default configuration: no access...
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EC2 Elastic IP Address • Fixed IP address • Map to any EC2 instance in a Region • Retain address after switching instances...
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EC2 Elastic Load Balancer • Distribute traffic to an array of EC2 instances • Scale up or scale down • Health checks • Traffic goes to healthy instances • Configurable list of ports...
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Amazon CloudWatch • Tracks and stores AWS and user-defined metrics • 2 week retention period • Detect issues • Raise alerts...
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EC2 Auto Scaling • Control number of running EC2 instances • Scale up or down as needed • Drive decisions based on CloudWatch metrics • CPU load • Network traffic • Auto-scaling group • Instance collection • Actions (rules)
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EC2 Elastic Block Storage (EBS) • Virtual disk volumes • 1 GB – 1 TB per volume • Create and attach to EC2 instance • Format and write data • Snapshot and restore • Provision desired IOPS (up to 1000 per volume)
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Amazon DynamoDB DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides extremely fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability...
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DynamoDB Highlights • Low Latency – SSD-based storage nodes – Average reads<5ms, writes<10ms • Massive and Seamless Scalability – No table size or throughput limits – Live repartitioning for changes to storage and throughput • Predictable Performance – Provisioned throughput model •...
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For More Information • AWS Home Page – http://aws.amazon.com • AWS Blog – http://aws.typepad.com • AWS Architecture Center - http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/ • @jeffbarr • @awscloud...
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