Amazon Introduction TechO(n) Reference manual

Introduction to Amazon Web Services
Jeff Barr
Senior AWS Evangelist
@jeffbarr / [email protected]

What Does It Take to be a
Global Online Retailer?

The Obvious Part…

And the Not-So Obvious Part

How Did Amazon Get in to Cloud Computing?
•We’d been working on it for over a decade
•Development of a platform to enable sellers on the Amazon global
infrastructure
•Internal need for centralized, scalable deployment environment for
applications
•Early forays into web services proved developers were hungry for more

This Led to a Broader Mission
•Enable businesses and developers to use web services (what people now
call “the cloud”) to build scalable, sophisticated applications.
“It's not the customers' job to invent for
themselves. It's your job to invent on their behalf.
You need to listen to customers. You need to invent
on their behalf. Kindle, EC2 would not have been
developed if we did not have an inventive culture.”
- Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO, Amazon.com

Attributes of Cloud Computing
No Up-Front Capital
Expense
Pay Only for What
You Use
Self-Service
Infrastructure
Easily Scale Up and
Down
Low Cost
Deploy
Improve Agility & Time-
to-Market

Last-Generation IT Services

Cloud-Generation IT Services

Cloud-Generation IT Services

What’s the Difference?
Last-Generation
•IT department
•Manual Setup
•Hours/Days/Weeks
•Error-prone
•Small scale
Cloud-Generation
•Empowered users
•Automated Setup
•Seconds/Minutes
•Scripted & repeatable
•Any scale

AWS PLATFORM
Cloud-Powered Applications
Management & Administration
Administration
Console Identity & Access Deployment Monitoring
Application Platform Services
Content Distribution Messaging Parallel Processing Libraries & SDKs
Foundation Services
Compute Storage Database Networking
Global Infrastructure
Availability Zones
Regions Edge Locations

Regions and Availability Zones
•Region –One of 8 distinct physical locations:
–Northern Virginia, San Francisco, Oregon, AWS GovCloud (US),
Tokyo, Singapore, Brazil, Ireland
•Availability Zone:
–Physical infrastructure (1 or more data centers)
–2 or more AZ’s per Region
–Fault tolerance across AZ’s

EC2 Instance
•Amazon EC2: A Virtual Server in the Cloud
•Provision and boot new servers in minutes
•Boot from AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
•Your choice of Linux or Windows
•Quickly scale capacity up or down
•Deploy across Regions and Availability Zones for flexibility & reliability
•Choose from 14 different instance types

EC2 Security Group
•Virtual firewall
•Control access to instance
•Default configuration: no access

EC2 Elastic IP Address
•Fixed IP address
•Map to any EC2 instance in a Region
•Retain address after switching instances