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* Quick, easy to deploy
 
* Quick, easy to deploy
 
* No contract, no initial investment required, no capital exchange necessary
 
* No contract, no initial investment required, no capital exchange necessary
* Pay as you go (pay for the machine ONLY when you use it, you don't need to own the infrastructure)
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* Pay as you go (pay for the machine ONLY when you use it, you don't need to own the infrastructure - easy to turn resource on and off)
 
* Automation
 
* Automation
  

Revision as of 05:22, 14 June 2012

Amazon Web Services 101, Cloud Computing Seminar, 14 June 2012

  • Where data is hosted and processed in the cloud because its faster!

Why use AWS

  • Elastic capacity
  • Quick, easy to deploy
  • No contract, no initial investment required, no capital exchange necessary
  • Pay as you go (pay for the machine ONLY when you use it, you don't need to own the infrastructure - easy to turn resource on and off)
  • Automation

Setting up AWS Account

  • Go to http://aws.amazon.com/
  • You will need Name, Email, Credit Card (for laters), Phone number
  • It will call you to confirm (and you will recite the number back to it and IT WILL MAGICALLY KNOW)

== Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

  • Elastic Map Services

See Also