Difference between revisions of "Amazon AWS Presentation Outline"

Revision as of 21:01, 18 April 2010

Cloud Services
- Amazon: Amazon Web Services (Hadoop, Linux)
- Google: AppEngine (Python + Java)
- Microsoft: Azure (Visual Studio, .Net, VB, C#)
- many more (http://groups.google.com/group/cloud-computing/web/list-of-cloud-platforms-providers-and-enablers?pli=1)

Why Amazon AWS
- easier for Universities
- supports hadoop
- offers Linux VM
- storage + computing = utility: pay as you go

- Some startups
- Web services based on hosting large collections of photos
- banks departments
- large pharmaceutical companies
- large companies

Amazon's services
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Simple Scalable Storage (S3)
- Elastic MapReduce (Hadoop)
- all accessible from Web GUI and 3rd Party

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 * Cloud Services
 ** Amazon: Amazon Web Services (Hadoop, Linux)
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 ** offers Linux VM
 ** storage + computing = utility: pay as you go
+* Amazon's customers
+(from http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/21/who-are-the-biggest-users-of-amazon-web-services-its-not-startups/ )
+** Some startups
+** Web services based on hosting large collections of photos
+** banks departments
+** large pharmaceutical companies
+** large companies
+* Amazon's services
+** Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
+** Simple Scalable Storage (S3)
+** Elastic MapReduce (Hadoop)
+** all accessible from Web GUI and 3rd Party