Ruby, Amazon Web Services and You

Ruby, Amazon Web Services

and You

Krzysztof Szafranek, RuPy 2008

The problem

EC2Elastic Compute Cloud

Processing Power on Demand

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Instance

Elastic IP

Zones and regions

Volatile storage

SOAP & REST

RightAws::Ec2

cap ec2onrails:server:deploy_files

Instance type Hourly price

Small

1.7 GB of RAM,1 Unit,160 GB,32-bit

$0.10

Large

7.5 GB of RAM,4 Units,850 GB,64-bit

$0.40

Extra Large

15 GB of RAM,8 Units,

1690 GB,64-bit

$0.80

1 EC2 Compute Unit ≈ 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor

S3Simple Storage Service

Unlimited storage

Files: 5 GB

Buckets: 100

Metadata

Keys

Keys

/images/highres/duck.jpg

ACL

USA and Europe

Torrents

AWS::S3

RightAws::S3

attachment_fu

class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base has_attachment :storage => :s3end

Pricing

$0.18 per GB-month

($0.15 in US)

Storage

In Out

$0.10

$0.18 0-10 TB

$0.16 10-50 TB

$0.13 over 50 TB

Bandwith (GB price)

Transfer within AWS is free

PUT, LIST GET and other*

$0.012 per 1,000 $0.012 per 10,000

Requests

*DELETE is free

SimpleDB

Fast storage...

...for UTF-8 strings

2 > 10

02 < 10

order by

10 GB, 100 domains

No schema

Automatic indexing

Real-time lookup

RightAws::ActiveSdb

AWS SDB Proxy

class Post < ActiveResource::Base self.site = "http://localhost:8888" self.prefix = "/domain/" end

GET /domain/posts?query QUERY

GET /domain/post/ID GET ATTRS

POST /domain/post/ID PUT ATTRS

PUT /domain/post/ID PUT ATTRS (replace)

DELETE /domain/post/ID DELETE ATTRS

SQSSimple Queue Service

Producers Consumers

Queue

Queues

Messages

RightAws::Sqs

Mechanical Turk

Human Intelligence Tasks

Requesters

Workers

Qualifications

SOAP & REST

Google App Engine

Google App Engine

Free* hosting

Google App Engine

Python, GQL, Google Accounts

Google App Engine

Quota Daily limit

Emails 2,000

Bandwith 10,000MB

CPU Megacycles 200,000,000

HTTP Requests 650,000

Google App Engine

AWSScalability commoditized?

Marcin WicharyDiego Sevilla RuizSean DreilingerMarcello Peronginidoommeer

Thank you!

CC-licensed photos by:

krzysztof@szafranek.net