Talk : Amazon Web Services Unleashed With ten services launched, Amazon Web Services provides developers access to inexpensive, scalable web-based business solutions and infrastructure. Amazon.com opened its technology and product vault in 2002, via Amazon Web Services, to allow developers the ability to construct powerful applications using the resources the company spent ten years and over $2 billion developing. The presentation will be divided into two main sections – First half will provide a High-level overview of Amazon Web Services with focus on start-up companies and second half will focus on technical overview of Amazon’s Utility computing Services.
Overview of Amazon Web Services
Web-Scale Computing Vision
Startup Kit for startup companies
Amazon Mturk, Amazon ECS and other services
Dive into Amazon Utility Computing Services
Amazon EC2/Amazon S3/Amazon SQS
Using Amazon S3 with Ruby on Rails
“Auto-Scale” Rails Applications
Deploy Rails applications on Amazon EC2
Ruby on Rails Amazon Machine Images
The session will also demo other cool Ruby on Rails applications that are developed by Amazon Developer community and share their best practices.
Jinesh Varia, Evangelist Amazon Web Services Jinesh Varia is focused on furthering awareness of web services and inspiring developers to create innovative applications using Amazon Web Services. Jinesh also helps developers on a 1:1 basis and help them implement their own ideas using Amazon’s innovative services. You might find him at local code camps, tech conferences and at all the geeky things that happen in Web 2.0 world. Jinesh is a Ruby-on-Rails aficionado and avid developer and loves to dive into new technology initiatives.
Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, Jinesh was involved in an XML Standards-based firm, UBmatrix, as Solutions Architect and Enterprise Team Lead working on various financial services projects including Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Penn State University. He plays tennis and loves to trek. jvaria@amazon.com