Amazon Web Services The Basics About Sean Hull
Amazon Web Services The Basics
About - Sean Hull Scalability, Database Performance & Web Operations EC 2, Rackspace & Cloud Migrations 20 Years Professional Technology Experience hullsean @ GMAIL. com www. iheavy. com/blog/ www. twitter. com/hullsean
Datacenter Evolution 1990 s - Sun Early 2000 s - Commodity Hardware Infrastructure-As-A-Service (Iaa. S) Raw Computing Power On-Demand Since 2008 - Cloud Platform-As-A-Service(Paa. S)
Raw or Cooked
Cloud Strengths On-demand Compute Power Low Up-front Costs Autoscaling - Hootsuite, Zynga, Animoto Easier Disaster Recovery & Compromise Response Disciplined Deployments, Iaa. S & Automation Availability Zones & Regions
Cloud Challenges Performance - Shared Resources SLAs & Server Reliability Security Considerations Database Considerations New Paradigm & Learning Curve
What Types of Uses? Apps with Seasonal Traffic Patterns One-off Needs Short-term Requirements Augmenting Quickly Dev & Test Environments
On-Demand & Provisioning Larry Summers - “Preserving Optionality” Spending Now Controlled by Software Costs: Storage, Network, Instances, Elastic IPs
And In Summary Do you have existing investments in physical servers? Is your app subject to seasonal traffic patterns? Do you spend a lot on DR Systems? Hybrid approach - Slow cautious adoption The cloud is uniquely suited to your needs Scripted EC 2 deployments could save big
Questions & Comments. . • • • hullsean @ GMAIL. com www. iheavy. com/blog/ www. twitter. com/hullsean
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