First up, is a keynote by Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon on The Power of Infrastructure as a Service. Here’s the abstract:
“Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment’s notice can be a complicated and expensive task, but it’s essential in today’s business landscape. This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young business unexpectedly saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to launch.
There are many challenges when building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today’s internet business. This presentation will review some of the lessons learned from building one of the world’s largest distributed systems – Amazon.com. The focus will be on state management which is one of the dominating factors in the scalability, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of the overall system.”
Goals of presentation:
1. How infrastructure as a service is a reality through Amazon Web Services
2. Explain how Amazon needed these services themselves
