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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