How SlideShare Uses Amazon Web Services

Jonathan BoutelleCTO, SlideShare

@jboutelle

What we use

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”

EC2

EC2

EC2

S3

TODO QUEUE (SQS)

DONE QUEUE (SQS)

EC2

EC2

EC2

EC2

Mechanical Turk“I need a workforce for doing

digital piece work”

Financial Implications of Using AWS

Thrifty

Price Per GB: Does It Matter?

Failure Is an Option

Handling Sudden Spikes

Scaling Without Effort

Don’t Forget to Breath

When you pay matters

With great power comes great responsibility

How to lose 5000$ really quickly

Shut down what you’re not using

Recommendations

Account management: Separate Accounts For

Different Use Cases

Free Fire Zone

Track instances and storage with a wiki

Automate, automate, automate

Getting Temporary Help

Balance Risk and Price

Reserved Instances vs. Spot Instances vs. “Regular”

Instances

Spreadsheet for reserved instance ROI

Thanks!

http://www.slideshare.net/jboutellehttp://www.jonathanboutelle.com

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