Tools

Lessons from Amazon Web Services

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very expensive for 24/7 server but very inexpensive if used for on-demand storage/computation consequently, do not use it as your main hosting platform except if get direct revenues from it (stick to having your own actual server in a datacenter, no VPS, no cloud) if you want to rent to a client for a short period of time or you can charge him a higher cost and minimize your setup cost (through an AMI) it's nice too

Notes

Authenfication

  • Putty error on Windows "Unable to use key file "my_key.pem" (OpenSSH SSH-2 private key)"
    • open it with puttygen my_key.pem
    • save it to my_key.pem.ppk
    • load it with it putty -i my_key.pem.ppk
  • AWS security credentials

Billing

  • date
    • for EC2 and S3
    • "You will be charged for your usage of this web service and any applicable taxes on the next billing date"
    • which is better for the cashflow
  • non Amazon tools
    • CloudSplit Real-time Cloud Analytics. Real-time spending insight. Real-time cost control.

Tools

EC2

S3

  • S3Fox Organizer(S3Fox) Firefox browser tab with a GUI similar to dual-pane layout FTP clients
  • s3fs FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3
  • Installing FUSE + s3fs and sshfs on Ubuntu by Eric Marden, xentek May 2009
  • torrent S3 files
    • "Any publicly available data in Amazon S3 can be downloaded via the BitTorrent protocol, in addition to the default client/server delivery mechanism. Simply add the ?torrent parameter at the end of your GET request in the REST API." according to Amazon Simple Storage Service FAQs
  • S3fm, web-based S3 explorer

Hive

VPC

Legislation

  • DevPay Availability in non-US countries, Amazon Web Services Developer Community
    • still not available as of August 2010 October 2009
  • Estimated taxes
    • "for business purposes [...] contact us at webservices@amazon.com and provide your VAT registration number and address/details about your company"

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Note

My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.

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