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