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Advanced Systems Lab – Fall 2014

Amazon Web Services Tutorial



Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides elastic VMs

You can start one or more virtual machines and pay for them per hour

You can get a voucher from your TA which allows you to spend 100 USD

You still need to register with a credit card (which will be used if you spend more than 100 USD – so be careful)

General



Go to aws.amazon.com and go to your account settings



Go to Credits, and redeem the voucher.



Go to AWS Management Console



Go to AWS Management Console – Compute & Networking …and choose EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)



Start new instances of virtual machines

Create new Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) from an existing instance

Create instances from your own AMI

Be prepared:

SSH-Key is required in order to be able to access the machine

Here you can:



Launch a new instance



Launch an existing AMI



Live Demo…



Instance Types



Instance Types - pricing



You can start and stop as many VMs as you need

BUT: You have no control where your instances physically live

(you can only chose the data center)

Network latencies are not predictable

You don’t know how other instances utilize the network

Keep in mind when interpreting benchmarks

AWS pros and cons



This is up to you:

Maybe micro-instances is good for development / testing / debugging

Use small / medium / large for actual experiments

Machine size may depend on what you want to use it for (DB / Middleware / Clients)

PostgreSQL does not run well on small instances

100 USD should be enough for benchmarking

What instance type should I use?



This is in general your problem!

If you use more than 100 USD, your credit card will be charged

BE CAREFUL! We will not reimburse you!

Whenever you start a VM you get charged for one hour

(even if the machine only runs for a few minutes)

To make effective use, you should set up your experiments and run as many

benchmarks as you can

Turn off the machines and analyze/optimize your system

Reiterate

I forgot to turn off a machine!



AWS has very good online documentation

For using Amazon EC2 on Linux please visit:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts.html

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