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What is Amazon EC2 ?What is Amazon EC2 ?

Elastic Compute Cloud

Hosting ... but not as we know it.

● Hosting on Demand – No humans involved. – Automated

– Fast

● But... – No DNS – You can assign a domain name to an

Amazon EC2 server but it's not officially supported by Amazon.

● It's relatively cheap.– No setup fee.– Billed by the hour.

But theres more...

● Amazon Machine Instances– A snapshot of a running server.

– Create a snapshot of a server

– Save it.

– Create some more servers just like that one.

● Install & Configure once and only once.– Launch as many servers as you can afford with that

configuration.

It's elastic because...

● Billing is by the hour (10c/hour = $72/month)● Server setup time = Server startup time.

– A traditional dedicated hosting plan can take a few hours for the providers to setup.

– Amazon EC2 setup time is as long as it takes to boot the machine

– (typically less than 3 minutes)

● It's automated – ( which means it's programmable )

What's it good for ?

● Plain old hosting.– Not recommended – servers are virtual and recently

some physical servers had to be decommissioned.

● Load Balancing.● Specialised CPU-intensive work.

Pixenate & EC2

EC2UI Demo

Resources

● http://tinyurl.com/3ayqpp –Amazon's EC2 Getting Started guide.

● http://tinyurl.com/2rdgqa–Firefox extension for Amazon EC2.