In this presentation we’ll introduce Amazon Web Services, touching on the core utility computing web services, including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon SQS and Amazon SDB. Since we’re members of the Amazon EC2 team we’ll dig a little more deeply into what it offers and what it’s like to work on a service like Amazon EC2. Amazon Web Services provides developers with direct access to Amazon’s robust technology platform. Build on Amazon’s suite of web services to enable and enhance your applications. We innovate for you, so that you can innovate for your customers. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity on demand. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Liehann Loots graduated from Stellenbosh University in 2001 and joined Astrata Systems in 2004 as a software developer and later a team lead. In July 2006 he joined Amazon.com as a software developer and works on cool new EC2 features. David Brown graduated from the University of Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University) in 2002 and joined Mosaic Software, now Postilion, as a software developer and later a technical team leader. In August 2007, he joined Amazon.com and currently leads one of the Cape Town development teams.