Amazon Web Services is an emerging infrastructure for building and scaling businesses on the Web. Based on the decade of experience supporting the world’s largest web retailer, this set of pay-per-use services is ideal for bootstrapping and growing a startup. Learn how to start using Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB, and Simple Queue services.

Amazon Web Services stack includes:

S3: a storage services ideal for hosting large media files

EC2: on-demand grid service

SimpleDB: distributed indexing, hashing, and simple database service

SQS: a queuing service for asynchronous message processing

In this talk we will describe the API and usage scenarios for each service. Participants need to have an understanding of basics of distributed computing.