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