Amazon Web Services

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)
• 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

• http://www.upsingapore.com/data-sandbox/
• http://www.upsingapore.com/datawiki/doku.php