Amazon Web Services

Group 2 Anurag Mehra Karri Kartik Mihika Yadav Roma Srivastava

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon EC2 = Virtual Machine Amazon EC2: on-demand compute power
Obtain and boot new servers instances in minutes Quickly scale capacity up or down Servers from $0.02 (2 cents) per hour On demand, Reserved and spot pricing

Key Features
Support for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris Supports all major web and application platforms Deploy across Availability zones for reliability Monitors status and usage

Amazon Elastic Block Store

Same as hard drive on physical server Well suited for primary storage for file system, database or any application that requires fine granular updates and access to raw, unformatted block-level storage.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

In traditional on-premise applications, this type of data would ordinarily be maintained on SAN or NAS. In comparison, cloud based mechanism such as Amazon is far more agile, flexible and geo-redundant. Amazon S3 is highly scalable, durable and available distributed object store designed for mission-critical and primary data storage with an easy to use web service interface.

Simple DB
Web service which provides real-time look up and querying of structured data. Easy to use when compared to relational database. Works in conjunction to EC2 and S3.

Burden in individual organisation to have a database admin is reduced.

Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Intermediate data message storage system. Developers were able to move data between distributed application components in a reliable manner.

Eliminated the need of components to be available always.

Flexible Payment Service (FPS)

Designed for developers to collect funds electronically from customers Leveraged upon the bargaining power Amazon had with credit card companies Had more features than PayPal

AWS Premium Support

Silver Plan:
Technical support with response time within 4 hours to 2 business days Pricing: $ 0.1/$ of total amount spent on AWS services or $100/month

Gold Plan:
24*7 support with 1 hour response time for urgent issues Pricing: $ 0.2/$ of total amount spent on AWS services or $400/month

EXAMPLES

AideRSS

Animoto
Online video making application from your photos Grew virally in 2008 Could easily scale up because it employed AWS

New York Times

Converting the papers from 1851 to 1980 in digital format Simple code in EC2 to read the data and store it in S3 1.5 terabytes of data in S3 for public use Time taken < 24 hours

Conclusion
Amazon aim:
It about long term To maintain leadership position in cloud computing

Customers benefits:
For business of all sizes Low fixed costs Highly scalable More flexible leading to better performance