{"id":351,"date":"2011-04-21T20:28:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikekuphal.azurewebsites.net\/?p=351"},"modified":"2011-04-21T20:28:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:28:37","slug":"my-notes-the-cloud-as-a-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"My Notes: The Cloud as a Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Jinesh Varia<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Amazon Web Services<\/a>\u00a0(AWS) Technology Evangelist<\/p>\n

Lines are blurring between SaaS<\/a>, PaaS<\/a>, IaaS<\/a><\/p>\n

Lots of new innovative business models.\u00a0 Pay as you go, One time upfront + pay as you go, Requested bid price and pay as you go, Standard and Reserved.\u00a0\u00a0 These work best respectively in the following environments: Spiky workloads, steady state workloads, time insensitive workloads, for regulatory and compliant workloads.<\/p>\n

Take-Away #1: Flexibility is the key for cloud options<\/p>\n

– Can use any Programming Model, language, or OS\/DB
\n– Can use any service individually or in any combo
\n– Can use as much (or as little) and only pay for what was consumed.
\n– Can use any existing System Management tools and extend the data center to the cloud<\/p>\n

The cloud as a platform: Platform that provides Foundation to build innovation solutions on top, abstraction to hide underlying layers (hardware and software), is self service.<\/p>\n

1 job, 1 machine, 500 hours = $1500 rack and stack on premises
\n1 job, 500 machines,\u00a0 hour = $290<\/p>\n

Netflix<\/a> is almost 100% on AWS<\/p>\n

Take Away #2: Elasticity is the fundamental property of the cloud<\/p>\n

\u201cTurn off, and not pay for it, when you don\u2019t need it.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s the beauty of the elasticity of the cloud.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuild a Web application that sleeps at night or shrinks itself when there are no users accessing it\u201d\u2026 Follow the sun and leverage the true power of on-demand elasticity and globally dispersed regions.\u00a0 (follows the sun means high usage during the day, much less at night)<\/p>\n

The day is not too far away where this is viable for most: Scalability, Security, high availability, Fault-tolerance, Testability and elasticity will be configurable properties of the app arch and will be an automated and intrinsic part of the platform on which they are built.<\/p>\n

Cloud is a platform for computation, Research and Development.\u00a0 Time to provision a server is a few minutes with cloud.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t have to hug your servers anymore.. You can get complete control of the environment.<\/p>\n

Cloud is a platform for:<\/p>\n