Amazon Web Services Workshop

138 Pages·2010·9.29 MB·English

Amazon Web Services Workshop
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Overview
2010 ISMB Cloud Workshop, Boston MA - [e-mail] - http://www.bioteam.net
Who am I?
•  I’m from the BioTeam
▫  Independent consulting shop
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informatics work on Amazon
AWS since 2007
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perspectives (Customer, cloud-enabled world…
Developer, Integrator)
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Warning: we usually take 2 full days to talk about this stuff
•  This will be a lightweight talk� •  We will not be talking about:
▫  Private Clouds
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** I have seen my ’09 graphic come to life in the real world. Psychic.
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Topics I do plan to talk about
•  Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) •  Strategies, Reference
•  Why cloud? Why Amazon? Architectures & Best Practices
•  Mapping high performance •  Technical challenges &
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Note: I am somewhat infamous for talking very fast and using huge slide decks.
Some slides are included mainly as “reference” material for post-workshop slide
handouts. Please feel free to interrupt & ask questions.
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The “C” Word
•  Impossible to avoid •  I prefer “utility computing”
•  The term ‘cloud computing’ is myself�
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Defining our Terms
•  Gartner:
▫  “Cloud  computing  is  a  style  of  computing  where  scalable  and  
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minimal support and administration costs, and more flexibility
than you’ve come to expect from your own infrastructure, either
on-premise or at a datacenter facility.”
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Today’s Cloud Meta-Topics
•  Laziness
•  Beauty
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The real reason I visit Amazon in Seattle, shhhhhh
(mocha made by Kelli @ Inner Chapters Café & Bookstore)
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Laziness
•  Larry Wall’s 1st Great Virtue:
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•  Scriptable IT Infrastructures are
Note subtle Amazon product plug above …
the latest boon for the
perennially lazy (like myself)
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Beauty
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3.  Infrastructure managed
Can you believe that the Broad Institute @ MIT let me into their
telco closets & machine rooms?
like it was source code
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Money
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