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Started at @ 6/7/2008 1:41:26 PM
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  • June 7th - 11:20 CT
    Speaker: Jeff Barr, Senior Web Services Evangelist - - Amazon.com

    Amazon.com is leading the way with an initiative that is fast becoming mission critical to anyone distributing content online. As a content owner, Amazon has made big waves by using cloud computing services. Cloud computing offers a fast, scalable and consistent virtual distribution infrastructure, which is expected to rapidly evolve how content is distributed online.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 1:42:37 PM
  • Interviewer: Kurt Kratchman, Chief Strategy Officer - Client Services - Schematic, Inc.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:32:09 PM
  • by synthoidcorp at 6/7/2008 5:32:45 PM
  • Jeff has been with Amazon a long
    time and basically invents Web services for them
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:34:57 PM
  • 1. Context
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:35:24 PM
  • by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:35:58 PM
  • Jeff: Thins back to the day of 2001 A Space Odyssey. Look a Moores law and the price of computing and how it make cloud computing possible.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:38:15 PM
  • Kurt: Are we ready for this new operating system?
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:38:39 PM
  • Jeff: Young people look at technology and say why is this computer not connected. It seems strange you would own one and not. It is not taken for granted.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:40:24 PM
  • by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:41:16 PM
  • Tim O'Reilly on the 2.0
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:41:56 PM
  • Jeff: there is not economically way to scale in the old way. Cloud Computing takes that out of the equation. It scales as necessary and gives back when the resources are not required.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:43:16 PM
  • by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:44:07 PM
  • Jeff: 6 years ago Amazon started down this part. Gives users a very flexible services. Need a render farm. Start one up. If you have to do the render in half the time, double your Cloud bandwidth.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:46:08 PM
  • Kurt: Lots of reasons to use it. Jeff Bezos - "Out source the muck"
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:47:22 PM
  • Jeff: Even
    you build all the hardware externally you will never be as big as you need to be.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:48:13 PM
  • Kurt: Who's using it.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:48:41 PM
  • by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:49:18 PM
  • They were able to scale at any time to meet the demand of there spikes in business.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:50:45 PM
  • by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:51:14 PM
  • Podango lets podcasters host and manage their own shows or stations using the company’s hosting, syndication, audience measurement and Web site creation tools. The company also offers publishers an embeddable podcast player for use in websites. Hosting their programs at Podango for free, station owners earn income by sharing advertising revenue from the aggregate of Podango-hosted stations.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:51:45 PM
  • Jeff: A very spiky work scale
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:52:26 PM
  • by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:53:27 PM
  • Jeff: 500 gig of photos online in S3
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:54:01 PM
  • Developers are now developing services in the cloud to service people in the cloud.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:55:22 PM
  • by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:56:02 PM
  • by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:57:38 PM
  • Jeff: You just create you account, attach an credit card and you are i the cloud. Now have 370, 000 developers registered.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 5:58:36 PM
  • Kurt:Is talking about some of the companies in the Alberta area using this service. AppSpin, Bitcurrent, Coghead, Elastra, Red Hat support.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:00:41 PM
  • Kurt: Other layers, Google, IBM, Microsoft Live, Yahoo
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:01:14 PM
  • Kurt: Thurderheads- Going offline, Stability, Privacy, Security, Net Neutrality US Patriot Act.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:02:13 PM
  • Kurt: Summary - Poem: Sprinklers and water falls - He wrote on the plane - OK - no way I could transcribe this.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:04:32 PM
  • Applause to the poem....
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:05:35 PM
  • Applause - End -QA
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:05:52 PM
  • Q: Streaming
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:06:29 PM
  • A: JustinTV- Has had 50,000 streams at one time.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:07:19 PM
  • The web services has surpassed the web site - Amazon
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:08:23 PM
  • Q: Cost
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:08:40 PM
  • A: Storage by the gig per month, 10 cents in and 10-18 cents out for the storage. Processor - per hour price 10-80 cents.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:09:50 PM
  • Q: Completive environment.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:10:03 PM
  • A: Its a very attractive business. We are well positioned to succeed. Lots of listening to our users. Earlier I ask about Microsoft in their cloud. His answer was "A number of our clients are asking for this service, and we listen to our clients."
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:11:52 PM
  • Q: Outage
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:12:04 PM
  • A: The cloud is set up into zones. We are striving towards 100% productivity.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:12:57 PM
  • Someone asked a question about the service being down for Animoto but another user slammed him.
    by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:14:02 PM
  • by MDM at 6/7/2008 6:15:19 PM
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