Amazon Web Services:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Agenda

Introduction
Amazon Web Services overview
Amazon EC2 is .
Amazon EC2 Benefits
Typical Examples
Q&A

Amazon?

Consumers (Buy)

Associates, Sellers & Merchants (Sell)

Developers (Innovate)

Issues Facing Developers

70% of Web Development Effort is Muck:
Data Centers
Bandwidth / Power / Cooling
Operations
Staffing
Scaling is Difficult and Expensive:
Large Up-Front Investment
Invest Ahead of Demand
Load is Unpredictable

Solution: Web-Scale
Computing

Scale capacity on demand

Turn fixed costs into variable costs
Always available
Rock-solid reliability
Simple APIs and conceptual models
Cost-effective
Reduced time to market
Focus on product & core competencies

Amazon Web Services Are...

A set of APIs and business models which give
developers access to Amazon technology and
content
Data As a Service
Amazon E-Commerce Service
Amazon Historical Pricing

Search As a Service
Alexa Web Information Service
Alexa Top Sites
Alexa Site Thumbnail
Alexa Web Search Platform

Infrastructure As a Service
Amazon Simple Queue Service
Amazon Simple Storage Service
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon SimpleDB

People As a Service
Amazon Mechanical Turk

The Commercial Side

Standard licensing terms

Commercially usable
Aggressive pricing
Monthly credit card billing
Self-serve model:
Sign up as developer
Choose services
Agree to service licenses
Enter payment info
Start coding

Amazon EC2 Is
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Hardware As A Service
A Web service that provides resizable
compute capacity in the cloud.
Designed to make Web-scale computing easier
for developers.
really Xen virtual machine instances running
on AMD x86; each instance has 2GB RAM and
150GB disk
A simple Web service interface that provides
complete control of your computing resources
create/destroy from the command line

Amazon EC2 Concepts

Amazon Machine Image (AMI):

Bootable root disk

Pre-defined or user-built
Catalog of user-built AMIs
OS: Fedora, Centos, Gentoo, Debian,
Ubuntu, Windows Server
App Stack: LAMP, mpiBLAST, Hadoop

Instance:

Running copy of an AMI

Launch in less than 2 minutes
Start/stop programmatically

Network Security Model:

Explicit access control
Security groups

Inter-service bandwidth is free

Simply to Use Amazon EC2

Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI).

Upload the AMI into Amazon S3.
Configure security and network access.
Choose the type(s) of instance you want to run.
Start, terminate, and monitor as many instances
of your AMI as needed, using the web service
APIs.
Pay for the instance-hours and bandwidth that
you actually consume.

EC2 SOAP/Query API

Images:

RegisterImage
DescribeImages
DeregisterImage

RunInstances
DescribeInstances
TerminateInstances
GetConsoleOutput
RebootInstances

Keypairs:

CreateKeyPair
DescribeKeyPairs
DeleteKeyPair

Image Attributes:
ModifyImageAttribute
DescribeImageAttribute
ResetImageAttribute

Instances:

Security Groups:

CreateSecurityGroup
DescribeSecurityGroups
DeleteSecurityGroup
AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngres
s
RevokeSecurityGroupIngress

Service Highlights

Elastic
Completely Controlled
Flexible
Designed for use with Amazon S3
Reliable
Secure
Inexpensive

Pricing
Pay only for what you use and there is no minimun fee.
Pricing is per instance-hour consumed for each instance
type.
Partial instance-hours consumed are billed as full hours.

$0.10- Small Instance (Default)

1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1
EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform
$0.40- Large Instance
7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2
EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of instance storage, 64-bit
platform
$0.80- Extra Large Instance
15 GB of memory, 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2
EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit
platform

Amazon EC2 Benefits You

Because It
Reduces the time required to obtain and boot
new server instances to minutes
Quickly scales capacity, both up and down, as
your computing requirements change
Changes the economics of computing:
Pay only for capacity that you actually use
a + bc becomes just bc

EC2 Gotchas
Local storage is non-persistent
When you shut down, your data is lost
Need to write it elsewhere; but S3 is free!
You can "freeze" a running instance's "disks" to
S3, as an "AMI" (Amazon Machine Instance),
then duplicate that to as many servers as you
like
DHCP IP address assignment
So IP changes when instance reboots
Hard to use as a public server
HTTP is still usable with a reverse proxy, such
as Pound or Apache's mod_proxy

Typical Examples
Photo Share Web Site
Online Backup
Email Services
Search experience
Podcast

JamLoop
GIGAVOX

Web-Scale Architecture

GigaVox is the leading podcast technology company.

gaVox Implemented Amazon S3, Amazon EC2 and Amazon SQS in November 2006

Summary

Cheap
Scalable
Beefy
Fault tolerant
Experiment!

Questions?

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Technical Report TR-08-07
An Evaluation of Amazons Grid Computing Services: EC2, S3
and SQS

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