Amazon EC2: What is this and what can I do with it? Short description and scheme of essential services of AWS

1. Amazon EC2: What is this and what
can I do with it?

2. Index
What is this?
Features
Service scheme
Essential services
Recommended and useful services
Security credentials
EC2
Access security
EBS
S3
Utilities

3. What is EC2?
EC2 is a group of remote services, provided for
Amazon, that make up a cloud computing
platform.
You can access to this services through HTTP,
SOAP and REST

4. Features
Scalable
On demand
Productivity

5. Services scheme
Web Interface Command Line Utilities
Management Console Interfaz AWS Toolkit Eclipse
Monitoring Delivery content
CloudWatch Amazon Cloudfront
Storage Networking Databases
Compute Amazon VPC
Amazon S3 ElasticLB
Amazon RDS
Amazon EC2 Amazon SimpleDB
Amazon EBS Amazon Route 53
Amazon phisical infrastructure

6. Essential services
Storage
Amazon S3
Amazon EBS
Compute
Amazon EC2

7. Recommended services
Monitoring
CloudWatch
Delivery content
Amazon Cloudfront
Networking
Amazon VPC
ElasticLB
Amazon Route 53

8. Security credentials
There are 3 types of access:
Passwords (REST)
X.509 certificate(SOAP)
Pair of keys (EC2 and Cloudfront)

9. Amazon EC2
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
It is a rental service server per hours.
Based in XEN.
Compute
Amazon EC2

10. Amazon EC2
Geographically distributed to give a high
disponibility and decrease the latency.
4 regions and 10 zones:
‣ US-East (North. Virginia) us-east-1{a,b,c,d}
‣ US-West (North. California) us-west-1{a,b}
‣ EU (Ireland) eu-west-1{a,b}
‣ Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1{a,b}

11. Amazon EC2
Amazon Machine Image = Virtual Image
(SO + Apps) that is loaded on a instance in virtual
plattform.
Storage in S3.
Can be public, private or shared.

12. Amazon EC2
11 different types of instances.
Change CPU, memory, size of hard drive and I/O
performance depend on the instance.

13. Amazon EC2
Every instances at time of booting only have a
ephemeral drives mounted on the system.
If you want permanent storage you have to use EBS
(Elastic Block Store)

14. Access security
Security Group: group of security rules that can be
used in more than one server.
Allow to define security directives(TCP/UDP port
access by host, networks, and other security
groups).

15. EBS
Storage Volumes to use in EC2 instances
Persistent storage. Between 1GB up to 1 TB of size.
“Raw”. Identified in the system as /dev/sdX
Only available in the same zone of your server.
Storage
Amazon S3
Amazon EBS

16. EBS
Snapshots. Clone, backup,...
“EBS Backed instances”. Instances that are mounted
on a EBS storage device instead of a ephemeral
storage device.

17. S3
File storage and backup service.
Files between 1 byte up to 5 GB, storaged in
buckets.
Redundant and distributed storage in each region.
Acces through SOAP and REST.
Storage
Amazon S3
Amazon EBS

18. S3
Security defined per archive.
Files can be public and available by https
AWS import/export for a considerable amount of
data.

19. Utilities
CLI (http://aws.amazon.com/developertools):
Amazon EC2 API tools
Amazon EC2 AMI tools aws
(http://www.timkay.com/aws/)
GUI
AWS Management console (web)
ElasticFox (Plugin Firefox for EC2)