Quick and Shallow Introduction to Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services

Vlad Korolev will provide a quick overview of development techniques for cloud computing environments and survey of major providers and services offered by them. He will explain the anatomy of typical cloud computing application and provide provide a concrete example of the application within the Amazon Web Services environment (comprising EC2, S3, SQS, and RDS). Vlad will also give an overview of the available development and administration tools and how to get started with EC2. The talk will conclude with the demonstration of creating and running a Hadoop application within the EC2 environment.