Cloud for Developers

Claudio Caballero me@claudio.nu

Managing Expectations
Im not selling, looking or shilling Principles, not procedures NOT expert just sharing knowledge Interaction, please YMMV Eating my dog food

Virtualization
Portability Hardware Independence
Disaster Recovery Scalability

Utilization Isolation

Virtualization Diagram

Spoiled for Choice, lots Free

Vmware Player, ESXi VirtualBox Xen (Citrix) Linux KVM

Cloud: key concepts

Metering, Low-CAPEX Elasticity Best practices, specialization Service Oriented Architecture Commoditization

Which level?

Examples

IaaS Cloud Comparison

Vendor AWS Rackspace GoGrid SoftLayer terremark PaaS YES YES NO ? NO Bare Metal NO ? almost YES ? YES YES YES(but) Custom Images? YES OpenStack ? NO(but) YES* NO YES NO Co-Lo ? NO NO NO YES YES CDN ? YES YES YES NO NO

AWS: more than just VMaaS

AWS: more than just VMaaS

Bottom Line for Developers

Cost versus portability Control No surprises at deployment

Sample Costs for AWS EC2

Micro Instance
613 MB memory Up to 2 EC2 Compute Units (for short periodic bursts) EBS storage only 32-bit or 64-bit platform I/O Performance: Low

$15 (USD) per month