AWS GovCloud Course – 1/12/2012
Instructor: Mark Ryland – Chief Solutions Architect
GovCloud Computing with AWS: “Like a giant baby startup”
AWS grew as an internal Amazon Service. Allowed software developers to focus on software development.
Lots of “undifferentiated value” tasks (setting up router, hardware, etc). Everybody is doing the same things. No difference, no value add.
- Rolph Harms Cloud paper “The Economics of the Cloud“, November 2010.
- Economics of it are so compelling that the solutions will be developed.
- Amazon price drops are not competition driven, they are efficiency driven.
- Speed of turns up is beyond all other models.\]
Service Drill Downs:
From memory, there was an overview of each provided
Access Policy Info:
- What is the item?
- Who wants to use it?
- What is the action?
EC2 permissions are coarse right now. Example: User can start/stop any instance. Coming: User can start/stop a specific instance.
GovCloud in Portland, OR area
Separate region with constrained access.
Requires a sign up.
ITAR only individuals.
No GovCloud Console
API only region. GUI tools that are client side:
Elastic Wolf (beefed up Elastic Fox)
Lots of New Features for AWS GovCloud (US) by Jeff Barr on 10 OCT 2012
NOTE: Billing data can get swept into Cloud watch to alert on billing issues.