April 2009
Intermediate to advanced
204 pages
6h 58m
English
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An Overview of Amazon Web Services
My goal in this book is to stick to general principles you can apply in any cloud environment. In reality, however, most of you are likely implementing in the AWS environment. Ignoring that fact is just plain foolish; therefore, I will be using that AWS environment for the examples used throughout this book.
AWS is Amazon’s umbrella description of all of their web-based technology services. It encompasses a wide variety of services, all of which fall into the concept of cloud computing (well, to be honest, I have no clue how you categorize Amazon Mechanical Turk). For the purposes of this book, we will leverage the technologies that fit into their Infrastructure Services:
Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2)
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon SimpleDB
Two of these technologies—Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3—are particularly interesting in the context of transactional systems.
As I mentioned earlier, message queues are critical in grid computing and are also useful in many kinds of transactional systems. They are not, however, typical across web applications, so Amazon SQS will not be a focus in this book.
Given that the heart of a transactional system is a database, you might think Amazon SimpleDB would be a critical piece for a transactional application in the Amazon cloud. In reality, however, Amazon SimpleDB is—as its name implies—simple. Therefore, it’s not well suited to large-scale ...
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