Cloud Computing in FlexMinimizing Risk, maximizing opportunity

Jacob Wright

360|Flex and MAX - Advanced ActionSript APIs

Flight Framework

Blog jacwright.com

Site gearsandcogs.com

“Cloud Computing”

Data and computing power which can be accessed from a cloud of online resources

More information on wikipedia

Cloud Service Types

Services - APIs (Google Maps, OpenID)

Storage - file and database storage

Infrastructure - servers on-demand

Platform - complete application stack

Several players

Amazon Web Services - à la carte

Google App Engine - complete package

Mosso

Joyent

GoGrid

Amazon’s Web ServicesElastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

SimpleDb

Simple Storage Solution (S3)

CloudFront

Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Flexible Payments Service (FPS)

DevPay

Mechanical Turk

S3Storage

SimpleDBDatabase EC2

Web Servers

EC2Processing

SQSTask Queue

Web Application

User

Cloud

Google App Engine

Code in Python or Java

Use Google’s APIs

Big Table

Google Accounts

Image

Memcache

URL Fetch

Mail

App Engine

Google App Engine

Web Application

User

App Cloud

Which is better?

Much more flexibility with Amazon (e.g. sockets)

Much less IT with Google

Greater lock-in with Google

Trade-offs to consider with everything

Leveling the playing field

Cheaper to deploy, able to scale

Developers can now compete with big companies

Startups can bootstrap more easily or require less funding

Minimizes risk, cost of failure isn’t so high, viral can be dealt with gracefully.

Flex Application Possibilities

Wowza or FMS on Amazon EC2

PyAMF and Big Table on Google App Engine

Amazon S3 and Amazon SimpleDB directly

Demo

Jacob Wright

Blog http://jacwright.com/

Site http://gearsandcogs.com/