Amazon services for e-Research
From BeSTGRID
Amazon Web Services are a service based model for provisioning:
- storage
- computing
- payments
- simple databases
- simple queueing
- people for small tasks
A series of meetings was held with Amazon Services Evangelist Mike Culver, with many areas of interest for the e-Research community. Some references are noted here, with further experimentation and notes making planned.
Amazon Web Services Blog is worth watching to stay in the loop on products of interest based on Amazon Web Services, along with general introductions to related concepts and the community.
For developers, the Amazon web services Developer Connection site has a comprehensive set of resources.
[edit] Storage
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) allows for storage located in the Amazon data centre at low monthly charges with no upfront costs. More information is available on the Amazon Web Services site.
- Developer [http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=46 resources for Amazon Simple Storage Service}
[edit] Computation
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud provides virtualised compute systems, based on Amazon Machine Images. These systems come in different sizes, that largest of which would suit varied computation needs well.
Amazon Machine Images are available for a wide variety of applications, from base operating systems, to Linux / Apache / MySQL / PhP bundles, to specific applications supporting e-Research.
[edit] Amazon Machine Images for e-Research
Below are the published AMI's discussed and reviewed on Amazon Machine Images.
Further AMI's are available directly from the EC2 AMI repository, including AMIs for Globus.
