Last week I attended a one day AWS Developer’s Bootcamp. AWS is Amazon’s Web Services. Next to my NoCOUG membership this was an excellent deal. The cost of the seminar was $225 and covered pretty much all of the AWS service offerings. Here’s a short list of what was covered:
- AWS Credentials which are needed to setup and manage your AWS services
- S3, or Simple Storage Service which is a simple bucket based storage service
- SimpleDB, Amazon’s very simple db
- SQS, Amazon’s Simple Queue Service
- EC2, or Elastic Cloud Computing which is a way to have virtual hosts in Amazon’s Data Centers
- Elastic IP which allows you to add a static IP to your EC2 host
- Amazon Cloud Front which does a magnificent job of ensuring traffic takes the most efficient route to your EC2 instances
- Elastic Map Reduce which allows you to setup and run a virtual Hadoop cluster as needed
The tools provided by Amazon also makes these services very easy to use. APIs are provided in languages such as C#, Java, PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python. The EC2 console at http://console.aws.amazon.com makes managing your EC2 instances and devices very easy. At this point I’m considering setting up my Data Guard examples in EC2, this way you can deploy an instance and you’d have a working example!
If you’d like to check out AWS and what it can do for you, visit the AWS website and sign up for a free tour in a city near you at http://aws.amazon.com/startupproject/
You can also search the events for the next Developer Bootcamp coming to city near you.
Data Guard on EC2 coming soon!
