This document provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS), including: - AWS offers on-demand computing infrastructure services including computing power, storage, databases, and content delivery. - AWS grew out of Amazon's own need for scalable infrastructure and now has hundreds of thousands of customers using its services. - Developers are attracted to AWS because of its reliability, scalability, low latency, ease of use, and low costs compared to managing their own infrastructure.

1. An Overview of Amazon Web Services Adam Selipsky

2. Amazon’s Three Businesses Retail Business Tens of millions of active customer accounts Seven countries: US, UK, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, China Seller Business Sell on Amazon websites Use Amazon technology for your own retail website Leverage Amazon’s massive fulfillment center network Developers & IT Professionals On-demand infrastructure for hosting web-scale solutions Hundreds of thousands of registered customers

4. What Do Developers Want?

5. Design Principles Reliable Scalable Low-Latency Easy to Use Inexpensive

6. Amazon Web Services Compute Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Storage Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Database Amazon SimpleDB Content Delivery Amazon CloudFront Messaging Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Custom Applications and Services Payments Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) On-Demand Workforce Amazon Mechanical Turk Parallel Processing Amazon Elastic MapReduce

7. AWS Usage Growth 2007: AWS bandwidth usage surpassed Amazon.com global websites Today: AWS bandwidth usage 30% greater than Amazon.com global websites Bandwidth Usage:

8. Amazon S3 Momentum Peak Requests: 70,000 per second 200 Million 5 Billion 18 Billion 52 Billion Total Number of Objects Stored in S3 Q1 2009

10. Diverse Customer Roster

11. Great Partner Momentum

12. Why Are People So Excited?

15. Heavy Lifting = Price of Admission Server hosting Bandwidth management Contract negotiation Purchase decisions Moving facilities Scaling and managing physical growth Heterogeneous hardware Legacy software Coordinating large teams

18. Immediate Cost Savings “ We’ve saved somewhere in the order of $3-5M that we would have spent by going it alone,” Scott Burkett, Chief Operating Officer.

24. Amazon Simple Storage Service

31. Quick Case Study: Wall Street

32. Typical Dilemma: Predicting Infrastructure Needs Compute Power Time Predicted Usage Actual Usage Waste Customer Dissatisfaction

33. Wall Street & Amazon EC2 Number of EC2 Instances 300 CPU’s on weekends Thursday 4/23/2009 Friday 4/24/2009 Sunday 4/26/2009 Monday 4/27/2009 Tuesday 4/28/2009 Saturday 4/25/2009 Wednesday 4/22/2009 3000- - 300 --