Cloud Computing with AWS Class 1

What to expect at AWS re:Invent 2012 cloud conference

There's a lot of buzz surrounding the premier AWS re:Invent cloud conference on November 27-29 in Las Vegas. SearchCloudComputing.com talked to our experts about their insights on what to expect when cloud giant Amazon hits Sin City.

We asked a few of our experts the following questions:

1. What do you think will be the important points at this show?
2. Who do you think will benefit most from attending?
3. What does it mean that AWS is hosting its first ever cloud conference?

And here's what they had to say.

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Amazon AWS - Python webframework - dynamodb - Stack Overflow

Tornado is a fast non-blocking web server itself. It's easy to write simple  apps in a few minutes, but it has nothing AFAIK like templates, views, etcetera <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11638135/amazon-aws-python-webframework-dynamodb>

Amazon Aws | Why Cloud Computing
Amazon offers different types of Instance types for their customers to meet  their cloud computing needs. Each instance has different specifications and customers <http://www.whycloudcomputing.net/tag/amazon-aws/>

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Amazon Web Services bolsters cloud capabilities
Filed Under. Amazon, AWS, cloud. Comments. View the discussion thread. Join  40000+ Insiders SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER. FierceEnterpriseCommunications is the IP Communications industry's leading source of insider information  and updated <http://www.fierceenterprisecommunications.com/story/amazon-web-services-bolsters-cloud-capabilities/2012-07-23>

Amazon Web Services: When did Amazon Web Services ... - Quora
Answer 1 of 4: July 19, 2012 - Amazon now offers a new instance type, hi1 4xlarge, that includes two dedicated 1TB SSDs attached as ephemeral instance <http://www.quora.com/Amazon-Web-Services/When-did-Amazon-Web-Services-begin-offering-SSDs-in-its-public-cloud>

Automate Cloud Application Deployments with Eucalyptus and AWS CloudFormation

Automate Cloud Application Deployments with Eucalyptus and Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudFormation

Learn How to Provision and Configure the Same Application on Both AWS and Eucalyptus

Date: Thursday, May 31, 2012
Time: 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT

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With the robust HA and IAM capabilities now available in Eucalyptus 3, organizations can deliver production grade on-premise cloud infrastructure for highly available and secure applications that are also compatible with AWS. 

And while there are many great open source cloud tools available, cloud administrators also need a framework to easily mix and match these tools to fit their unique requirements.  When they can then automate the full application lifecycle including deployment, configuration management, operations, and monitoring - the promise of cloud is realized. 

Now you can have a simple, standard, way to automate cloud resource configuration, provisioning, and deployment for AWS and Eucalyptus deployments.

Join us on Thursday, May 31st at 2pm EDT / 11am PDT to see how Cloud Sidekick’s Cato Cloud Orchestration Platform can extend Eucalyptus clouds with:

Amazon Web Services: Students can start using

Dear all

Here is a Professional Tips from Jeevan Dongre on using AWS

Hello sir,

you can ask juniors to host all you blogs on wordpress and deploy on aws since its offering free usage quote which is sufficient enough to manage all u r blogs on u r own domain, plz ask 3 rd year students who are interested take this project.

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JumpBox for the AWS Free Usage Tier Posted: 08 Mar 2011 11:16 AM PST We've teamed up with JumpBox to make it even easier and less expensive for you to host a WordPress blog, publish a web site with Drupal, run a Wiki with MediaWiki, or publish content with Joomla. You can benefit from two separate offers: The new JumpBox free tier trial for AWS customers lets you launch and run the applications listed above at no charge. There will be a small charge for EBS storage (see below). If you qualify for the AWS free usage tier it will give you sufficient EC2 time, S3 storage space, and internet data transfer to host the application and to handle a meaningful amount of traffic. Any AWS user (free or not) can take advantage of JumpBox's offer, paying the usual rates for AWS. The AWS free usage tier is subject to the AWS Free Usage Tier Offer Terms; use of AWS in excess of free usage amounts will be charged standard AWS rates. Note: The JumpBox machine images are larger than the 10 GB of EBS storage provided in the free usage tier; you'll be charged $1.50 per month (an additional 10 GB of EBS storage per month) if you run them in the free usage tier. The applications are already installed and configured; there's nothing to set up. The application will run on an EC2 instance of its own; you have full control of the configuration and you can install themes, add-ins, and the like. Each application includes a configuration portal to allow you to configure the application and to make backups. Here's a tour, starting with the 1-page signup form: After a successful signup, JumpBox launches the application: The application will be ready to run in a very short time (less than a minute for me): The next step is to configure the application (I choose to launch Joomla): And I am up and running: You can access all of the administrative and configuration options from a password-protected control panel that runs on the EC2 instance that's hosting the application: Here are the links that you need to get started: AWS Free Tier WordPress Drupal MediaWiki Joomla As you can probably see from the tour, you can be up and running with any of these applications in minutes. As long as you are eligible for and stay within the provisions of the AWS free usage tier, you can do this for free. I'm looking forward to hearing your thought and success stories; leave me a comment below. -- Jeff;

ActivePython AMI from ActiveState Posted: 08 Mar 2011 08:53 AM PST The folks at ActiveState have cooked up an ActivePython AMI to make it easy for you to build and deploy web application written in Python.You can get started in minutes without having to download, install, or configure anything. The AMI is based on the 64-bit version of Ubuntu and includes MySQL, SQLite, Apache, ActivePython, Django, Memcached, Nginx, and a lot of other useful components. You can run the AMI on the Micro, Large, and Extra Large instance types. They have put together a nice suite of resources around the AMI including a tutorial (Building a Python-Centric Web Server in the Cloud) and a set of Best Practice Notes on Cloud Computing With Python. Check it out, and let me know what you think! -- Jeff;