Amazon EC2

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

To use Amazon EC2, you simply:

• Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) containing your applications, libraries, data and associated configuration settings. Or use our pre-configured, templated images to get up and running immediately.
• 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.
• Use Amazon EC2 web service to configure security and network access.
• Choose the type(s) of instance you want to run.
• Start, terminate, and monitor as many instances of your AMI as needed, using the web service APIs.
• Pay for the instance-hours and bandwidth that you actually consume.

Case

作为 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) 在实际应用中的一个例子，The New York Times 使用成百上千台 Amazon EC2 实例在 36 小时内处理 TB 级的文档数据。如果没有 EC2，The New York Times 处理这些数据将要花费数天或者数月的时间。

Links

• http://aws.amazon.com/ec2
• WSDL: http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-06-26/AmazonEC2.wsdl
• http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/
• http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-ami-tools.noarch.rpm
• http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-api-tools.zip
• http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2ui.xpi
• http://www.crosschecknet.com/web_services_testing_tools_amazon_ec2.php
• Getting Started Guide: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2008-02-01/GettingStartedGuide/
• Developer Guide: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2008-02-01/DeveloperGuide/
• Getting Started Guide: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonEC2/gsg/2007-01-03/
• Developer Guide: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonEC2/dg/2007-01-03/
• Articles and Tutorials: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=100
• http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonEC2/dg/2006-10-01/
• http://www.programmableweb.com/api/amazon-ec2