Two new talks I gave recently. The first was as a guest speaker at an AWS 101 conference:
And the second one was one of my better talks on how to use some freely available tools for quick startup validation:
Tag: amazon
SimpleDB
What’s missing from Amazon’s suite of web services? Two things: SimpleDB which provides database-like persistence and SimpleBalancer, which load balances “services” on multiple EC2 clusters. While it’s possible to emulate both using S3 and EC2 right now, it’s hard to do, and feels really clumsy. When Amazon does engineer these things, expect Google to take a peek in as well. Oh, we live in interesting times.
