Amazon AWS Presentation Outline

• 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

• 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