A presentation by Kelvin Gan & Liam McMurray

Web Services, University of Bath

Who we are

Liam McMurray Kelvin Gan

   
• Web Designer • Web Software Developer
• Mac-ophile • Geek
• Aesthetically driven • Obsessive - Compulsive
• End user • Engineer
"What is Cloud Computing?"
- Liam (2 weeks ago)
"Cloud computing is a buzzword..."
"The concept, quite simply, is that vast computing resources
will reside somewhere out there in the ether (rather than in
your computer room) and we'll connect to them and use them
as needed."
- Jonathan Weber (The Times Online)

http://go.bath.ac.uk/xpcb
3 aspects of Cloud Computing

As described by Thorsten vok Eiken at RightScale:

 
1.  Applications in the Cloud (SaaS): http://go.bath.ac.uk/ym2i 
o Google Apps
1. Flickr
2.   Platforms in the Cloud (PaaS):
o Google App Engine
o Mosso
o Force.com
– Infrastructure in the Cloud (HaaS) http://go.bath.ac.uk/kzkz
o Amazon Web Services
Applications in the Cloud / SaaS

• email
• photo sharing
• calendars and contacts
• document sharing (like this!)
Platforms in the Cloud / SaaS
- Amazon Web Services 
Amazon EC2 Amazon S3
• Elastic Cloud Computing  • Simple Storage Service
• virtual servers for rent • up to $0.18 per GB storage 
• called Amazon Machine Images • from $0.10 per GB transfer
(AMIs) • via
• based on Xen o REST
• priced on per hour from o SOAP
$0.10 to $1 o BitTorrent

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
Infrastructure in the Cloud / HaaS
- Google App Engine
• A web application development framework and hosting solution
rolled into one
• That uses the infrastructure available at Google
o so their servers + storage: BigTable
• Currently public preview
• Pricing to be announced
• Scalable? Quotas in place while in preview
o bandwidth is 10 GB which is plenty
o but CPU is 0.2 GHz
o max HTTP requests per day is 650,000
o you can apply for an extension
• (currently) Python only

http://code.google.com/appengine/
Microsoft Azure Services

• Very new: released Monday 27th October (last week!)

• XaaS
o Windows Azure (.Net hosting)
o MS SQL Services
o Live Services
o Microsoft Sharepoint Services
o Microsoft Dynamic CRM Services 
• Integrated support in Visual Studio
• Surprisingly, there are .Net SDKs for:   
o Java
o Ruby!

http://www.microsoft.com/azure/
Good & Bad of PaaS/HaaS-based
Cloud Computing
The Good The Bad
• cheap • vendor lock-in
• scales o portability very hard
• minimal start up costs  • single point of failure
o for a few £'s I have big servers • not yet mature
available
• resilience is someone else's
problem
http://go.bath.ac.uk/i2ej

http://go.bath.ac.uk/qsen http://go.bath.ac.uk/ufxn