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*** High-CPU medium Instance, 5 ECU, 1.7 GB Ram, 350 GB disk (32-bit instance)
 
*** High-CPU medium Instance, 5 ECU, 1.7 GB Ram, 350 GB disk (32-bit instance)
 
*** High-CPU Extra Large Instance, 20 ECU, 7 GB Ram, 1.6 TB Disk.
 
*** High-CPU Extra Large Instance, 20 ECU, 7 GB Ram, 1.6 TB Disk.
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* S3
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** Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. The number of objects you can store is unlimited.
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** Objects are redundantly stored on multiple devices across multiple facilities in an Amazon S3 Region.
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** Simplified pricing: $0.15 per GB/month, stored or downloaded.

Revision as of 20:58, 18 April 2010

  • Why Amazon AWS
    • easier for Universities
    • supports hadoop
    • 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
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  • EC2
    • "Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. "
    • Start up the server you need
    • Pick the # of cores, the RAM, and the disk storage
    • Pick the OS
    • Elastic IP addresses
    • several architectures: The unit used is 1 ECU = 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor.
      • Small Instance: 1 32-bit ECU, 1.7 GB Ram, 160GB disk (32-bit instance)
      • Large Instance: 4 64-bit ECU, 7.5 GB Ram, 850 GB disk
      • Extra-Large Instance: 8 64-bit ECU, 15 GB Ram, 1.7 TB disk
      • High-Memory Extra-Large Instance, 6.5 ECU, 17.1 GB Ram, 420 GB disk
      • High-Memory Double Extra-Large Instance, 13 ECU, 34.2 GB Ram, 850 GB disk
      • High-Memory Quadruple Extra-Large Instance, 26 ECU, 68.4 GB Ram, 1.6 TB disk
      • High-CPU medium Instance, 5 ECU, 1.7 GB Ram, 350 GB disk (32-bit instance)
      • High-CPU Extra Large Instance, 20 ECU, 7 GB Ram, 1.6 TB Disk.
  • S3
    • Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. The number of objects you can store is unlimited.
    • Objects are redundantly stored on multiple devices across multiple facilities in an Amazon S3 Region.
    • Simplified pricing: $0.15 per GB/month, stored or downloaded.