3. A little about me Assistant Director of Public Affairs at Allegheny College NITLE Technology Fellow http://highedwebtech.com @mrichwalsky on Twitter
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5. What We’ll Talk About Today Quick Overview of the cloud Examples Hands-on
8. What is the cloud? Use resources only as you need them Pay as you go Scale up and down quickly and easily
9. What is the cloud? Use external infrastructure to solve internal technology issues and needs.
10. What is the cloud? It can cost less to take advantage of existing infrastructure then building your own from scratch, especially for short-term projects.
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12. An Example Fundraising Video Mailing list of 45,000 people Challenge: Get the video served quickly and economically to the audience Address both the initial burst + the long tail.
18. What we’re doing at Allegheny We moved our podcast and video hosting to Amazon S3 in 2007 Served admissions + fundraising videos Served videos for our partnership with NY Times Audio, video and SWF hosting for our online tour
19. What we’re doing at Allegheny Backups At least in our web/public affairs group Looking at campus-wide solutions Misc. web hosting PDF, Javascripts, CSS, Image Galleries Email Outsourcing Google Apps for Education Campaign Monitor for marketing
20. Does the cloud make sense for your project? Duration of project Type of service needed The cloud is better at some things than others Amount of data to move May be cist oe
35. Upload the AMI into Amazon S3. Amazon EC2 provides tools that make storing the AMI simple. Amazon S3 provides a safe, reliable and fast repository to store your images.
36. Use Amazon EC2 web service to configure security and network access.
37. Choose which instance type(s) and operating system you want, then start, terminate, and monitor as many instances of your AMI as needed, using the web service APIs or the variety of management tools provided.
