Amazon AWS and Boto

Amazon's Web Services (AWS), specifically EC2 instance and EBS volume storage, have become a very popular, and powerful, option for deploying web applications to the cloud.

Chris Crownhart will present an introduction of Amazon AWS, including:

Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) - instances and Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) Elastic Block Volumes (EBS) - Volumes and Snapshot Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Identity and Access Management (IAM) - Users, Groups and Permissions Route 53 - DNS http://aws.amazon.com/ He will then present demos and examples of the excellent boto Python module - A Python interface to Amazon Web Services. Boto allows you to:

create,list and manage your instances create, list and manage volumes and snapshots create and manage auto scaling instances and much, much more...http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ New Location!

Great news, we have a new meeting location. We will be meeting at In-Situ on East Lincoln, just North of Old Town. The building is all locked up after hours, so we will meet a representative from the company at the front door between 5:15 and 5:30. They have asked us to not wander around the building and to only remain in the area where the conference room is. Please be respectful of our gracious host.

See you Tuesday!