- Most of what is sold as "cloud computing" these days is hype -- just warmed-over stuff that they used to market as "grid computing", which was also mostly hype (unless you're a large government organization with zillions of dollars to spend).
- Amazon Web Services is cloud computing. Even Google and M$ are years behind Amazon, and if they don't catch up in the next six months, it will be too late.
- "Private Clouds" = Absolute Rubbish.
- Tipping Point: In 2008 many people started independently successfully using AWS to solve their customer's problems.
- Why AWS works:
- Smart Pricing:
- 8.5 cents per CPU hour.
- Traffic to and from the S3 service is free.
- If you personally spend a week playing around with AWS, it will probably end up costing you about $8.
- With EC2, you can burst up to any number of servers. To keep that many servers of your own spinning idle, just so that they're there when you need them, would cost you a fortune.
- AWS comes with a MapReduce implementation (with Hadoop integrated into it).
- People estimate that it costs Amazon 80 cents per GB per year to keep all data online, spun-up, and replicated three times in a geographically distributed manner. This is probably much cheaper than you could do it for.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Cloud Computing & Amazon Web Services
Today I attended a talk on cloud computing by Chris Dagdigian of BioTeam, Inc. The executive summary is this:
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The webinar Doug refers to is behind a paywall unfortunately. However, my webinar presentation was a 20 minute excerpt from a 60 minute cloud talk I've presented a few times in the last couple of weeks.
The PDF slides from the 60 minute "maximizing utility of the cloud" can be found here:
http://blog.bioteam.net/2009/10/16/maximizing-utility-on-the-cloud/
@Chris: Thanks for the link to your slides!
Traffic in and out of S3 is not free (outside of the cloud).
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