Amazon Web Services

Amazon
Web Services
Nikolay Tomitov
Technical Trainer
SoftAcad.bg
Topics Today
What
are Amazon Web services (AWS) ?
Whats
cool when developing with AWS ?
Architecture
Quota
& Pricing
Amazon
Demo
of AWS
Web Services
application
Deploying
Simple Applications
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What are These

AWS ?
Simple Storage Service (S3)

Provides limitless storage of large files in the cloud
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Provides virtual machine instances called Amazon Machine
Instances
Ability to create AMIs on the fly according to demand
Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Provides reliable messaging between any applications using AWS
Amazon EBS
Amazon Cloud Front

Think of this as a simple web server for static content
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AWS Key Features

Services
are provided over Web
Communication
is web-service based
Communication
interface API has

been designed to be simple and
effective
Three
kinds of interfaces: REST,

Query & SOAP based
Authentication
embedded in each
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Prices
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
Standard On-Demand Instances

Small (Default)
$0.090 per Hour
$0.115 per Hour
Medium
$0.180 per Hour
$0.230 per Hour
Large
$0.360 per Hour
$0.460 per Hour
Extra Large
$0.720 per Hour
$0.920 per Hour
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Elastic Compute
Cloud (EC2)
Ability to increase or decrease capacity

within minutes
Ability to commission one, hundreds, or

even thousands of server instances
simultaneously
A web service API to control the scaling

of instances depending on your needs
A pay only for what you use pricing

model
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Amazon Elastic
Block Store (EBS)
Highly available and highly reliable

storage volumes
From 1GB to 1TB
Mounted as devices by EC2 instances
Use them as hard drives
Created in specific availability zone
Automatically replicated
Performance metrics (Amazon

CloudWatch)
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$0.10 per 1 million I/O requests you
make
Amazon EBS
Snapshots
Backups
of your data lying in

Amazon S3
Incremental
Loaded
lazily
Shared
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Amazon Simple
Queue Service
(SQS)
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Simple Queue
Service
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SQS Features
Provides
reliable messaging between

any applications using AWS
Multiple writers and readers
Multiple parts of your system can send or
receive messages at the same time
Configurable
properties and access
control
Messages are stored in distributed
environment
To facilitate reliable delivery
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EC2 & SQS
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EC2 & SQS
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EC2 & SQS
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EC2 & SQS
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Amazon Relational
Database Service
(RDS)
Web
service that makes it easy to set

up, operate, and scale a relational
database in the AWS cloud
Currently supporting Oracle and MySQL
Simple
to deploy
Scalable
& reliable
Secure
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SimpleDB
Stores textual information in a simple

database structure
Does not mandate schema for database
Indexes information to facilitate faster

query
Stores data securely and reliably across

multiple data centers
No limits on amount of data

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Simple Storage
Service (S3)
Offers
secure online storage system

for any kind of data
Data
is universally accessible over

the Web
No
limits on amount of data,

longevity or bandwith for transfer or
publish
Scalable,
distributed system
Stores data redundantly across
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Data Storage in
Amazon ?
A relational database service with

minimal administration ? ( Amazon
RDS )
A fast, highly scalable NoSQL database

service ? ( Amazon DynamoDB )
A NoSQL database service for smaller

datasets ? ( Amazon SimpleDB )
A relational database you can manage

on your own ( Amazon EC2 + Amazon
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Amazon Simple
Notification
Service(SNS)
Easy
setup, operate and send

notifications from the cloud !
Highly
scalable, flexible, cost-effective
Broad
protocol choice (HTTP,email,

SMS, etc.)
Best
for event-driven workflows
Pull
mechanism
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DEMO APPLICATION
Live Demo
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Amazon Route 53
Authoritative
Domain Name System
(DNS) service
Well
documented and easy to setup
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Amazon CloudFront
Web
service for content delivery (CDN)
Supports
Map
edge locations
domain name to distribution
Fast,
simple, elastic, reliable, global

and cost-effective
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CloudFront and
Streaming
Distributions
Supports
Adobes Flash and Windows

Media Services
Benefits
to end users close; easy to

pause, rewind; different encodings
Wide
variety of formats
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Some use cases for

Amazon CloudFront
Hosting
your most frequently

accessed website components
Distributing
Publishing
software
popular media files
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Amazon
ElastiCache
The problem with databases ?
Memcached solution
Implements Memory Caching system by

caching repetitive queries
Easy to setup, manage, scale
Each cluster has one or more cache nodes

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Questions ?
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Homework: Try EC2

Follow the tutorial at:
http://whatiscomingtomyhead.wordpress.com
/2010/11/24/absolute-first-step-tutorialfor-amazon-web-services/
1. Sign up to Amazon AWS
2.
Create an EC2 machine with Linux
3.
Connect and install Apache Web Server
4.
Test the Apache Web Server's Home Page
Submit the URL of your Apache Web server

in the AWS cloud.
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Homework: Try
S3
Create a simple application in C#, Java, PHP or

other language to upload / download a file in
Amazon S3. Follow these tutorials:
1.
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/l
atest/gsg
/
2.
http://
docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/
dev/UploadInSingleOp.html
3.
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/la
test/dev/GettingObjectsUsingAPIs.html
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are Amazon Web services (AWS) ?

cool when developing with AWS ?

What are These

Simple Storage Service (S3)

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Amazon Cloud Front

AWS Key Features

are provided over Web

interface API has

kinds of interfaces: REST,

Standard On-Demand Instances

$0.090 per Hour

$0.115 per Hour

$0.180 per Hour

$0.230 per Hour

$0.360 per Hour

$0.460 per Hour

$0.720 per Hour

$0.920 per Hour

Ability to increase or decrease capacity

Ability to commission one, hundreds, or

A web service API to control the scaling

A pay only for what you use pricing

Highly available and highly reliable

Use them as hard drives

Created in specific availability zone

Performance metrics (Amazon

of your data lying in

reliable messaging between

properties and access

EC2 & SQS

EC2 & SQS

EC2 & SQS

EC2 & SQS

service that makes it easy to set

Stores textual information in a simple

Does not mandate schema for database

Indexes information to facilitate faster

Stores data securely and reliably across

No limits on amount of data

secure online storage system

is universally accessible over

limits on amount of data,

Stores data redundantly across

A relational database service with

A fast, highly scalable NoSQL database

A NoSQL database service for smaller

A relational database you can manage

setup, operate and send

scalable, flexible, cost-effective

protocol choice (HTTP,email,

for event-driven workflows

Domain Name System

documented and easy to setup

service for content delivery (CDN)

domain name to distribution