Amazon Cloud Services - EC2 and friends

Did you know that everyone with an Amazon account is entitled to a free micro EC2 cloud server? That's means free hosting for all!

We'll show you how to set one up and check out a bunch of the awesome features that make Amazon Cloud Services the major player in the space.

We'll create instances from scratch, talk about which ones you want, set them up with security and how to do load balancing for heavy traffic. After we set it up we'll show you how to move it to more powerful hardware in the system.

We'll also log into the new box and install some stuff so that you can get started with as little resistance as possible.

There are more services than we have time to discuss but we'll cover most of the important EC2 (cloud servers) concepts and maybe we can get to some S3 (cloud storage).

This should be one of the most informative and worthwhile sessions to date. See you there!