Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud

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Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud
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Whats Computing Cloud

• Type of public net work
• Virtual infrastructure
• A type of method to share computing resource
• Method divide data into small pieces and each
  server share some processing tasks.
• Can be run parallel
• Advantages
• Lower cost
• Easy to maintain
• Increase utilization

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What is it?

• a web service that provides resizable compute
  capacity in the cloud
• New market monopoly right now

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Advantages

• Pay-per use
• 10?/hr small instance
• 40?/hr small instance
• 80?/hr small instance
• Good for start-up business and individual
  developer inexpensive to try out
• No need for expensive private server
• Gain full control instead of by dedicated host
• Flexible free to scale up and down with capacity
• Great server 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute
  Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit),
  160 GB of instance storageetc

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Problems and Issue(1)

• Per hour base didnt use an other, still count
  as an hour, add up to be a lot in the end
• no persistent storage computer crush, runtime
  terminated, need to reload

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Problems and Issue(2)

• Lack of SLA (Service Level Agreement )
• Under customer agreement
• We further reserve the right to discontinue
  Amazon Web Services, any Services, or any portion
  or feature thereof for any reason and at any time
  in our sole discretion. Upon any termination or
  notice of any discontinuance, you must
  immediately stop your use of the applicable
  Service(s), and delete all Amazon Properties in
  your possession or control (including from your
  Application and your servers). Sections 3, 5, 8 -
  12, any definitions that are necessary to give
  effect to the foregoing provisions, and any
  payment obligations will survive any termination
  of this Agreement and will continue to bind you
  and us in accordance with their terms.
• Not a good idea to save large amount of important
  data in the long run- customer has less
  confidence on service

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Potential Competitors

• Possibility provide similar service in the future
• Sun Microsystems Inc. Planning
• IBM Corp. Planning
• Microsoft Value-add resellers (VARs)
• Google Google BigTable, Google Base

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Future Direction

• Enhance the EC2 server with immunity storage
• Make the use of Amazon EC2 in combination of
  Amazon S3
• Establish a stronger warrant to the services