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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a platform for cloud computing over the Web. AWS has a natural appeal for business projects, but has also been successfully used for applications in scientific and state contexts, some of which provide excellent demonstrations of what can be done in the cloud.
A noteworthy example of this is how Cycle Computing along with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) built a record-breaking 70,000 core cluster computer in AWS (using spot instances), in an attempt to simulate intensive hard drive workload. The University of Chicago has also been using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service to develop systems for genomics analysis, which has helped the agile development and running of production web services for science.
We’ll discuss the advantages to launching your core business systems on AWS below.
In our view Amazon has achieved and maintains a very strong vision for AWS. Unfortunately, this vision isn’t particularly well understood by the media, and Amazon is frequently misrepresented, particularly on the question of reliability and security.
Despite this there are some positive signs that the tide is starting to turn in terms of public perception, mainly because of some high profile successes launched using AWS, with organisations ranging in size and type, from Netflix and Expedia to high street retailers such as Marks and Spencer.