Amazon Web Services

6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike

7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation

8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/Wanted

Open Mic
This is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers.

Presentation Abstract: Learn about Amazon Web Services: a collection of remote computing services offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. They provide online services for other web sites or client-side applications. Most of these services are not exposed directly to end users, but instead offer functionality that other developers can use. Amazon Web Services' offerings are accessed over HTTP, using REST and SOAP protocols, and are billed on usage. The services include:
* Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2): scalable virtual private servers
* Simple Storage Service (S3): Web Service-based storage for applications
* Simple Queue Service (SQS): a message queue for web applications
* Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk): for managing small units of work distributed amongst many people
* Amazon SimpleDB: for running queries on structured data
* Amazon CloudFront: a content delivery network (CDN) for distributing S3 objects to 'edge locations' near the requester
* and a number of others

Bio: Janesh Varia is a Web Services evangelist at Amazon.com with a background as Solutions Architect at UBMatrix and a Software Engineer at Penn State Data Center. http://www.linkedin.c...