How SlideShare Uses Amazon Web Services
Jonathan BoutelleCTO, SlideShare
@jboutelle
S3“Managing Disk is a PITA”
EC2“Sometimes I need 100
servers, sometimes I only need 10”
SQS“I need a distributed queue to
dispatch jobs to EC2”
Mechanical Turk“I need a workforce for doing
digital piece work”
Financial Implications of Using AWS
Thrifty
Price Per GB: Does It Matter?
With great power comes great responsibility
How to lose 5000$ really quickly
Shut down what you’re not using
Account management: Separate Accounts For
Different Use Cases
Track instances and storage with a wiki
Automate, automate, automate
Balance Risk and Price
Reserved Instances vs. Spot Instances vs. “Regular”
Instances
Spreadsheet for reserved instance ROI
Thanks!
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