Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine represent the leading edge of a wave of cloud services. These services and similar services that are being developed by other vendors are increasing efficiencies in web application development, hosting and data storage. These services
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provide the ability to expand computing and hosting capability as a variable cost rather than a fixed cost. The ability to design infrastructure that dynamically adapts to peak loads positively affects the stability and resilience because infrastructure no longer experiences service outages during peak loads. It can flexibly extended via cloud services. In this talk recorded at Saltmarch Media's Nitin Borwankar anweres questions such as What are the business areas that can benefit most from using cloud services? How can enterprise business standards be met with seemingly unreliable services? Take two of the most prominent services as category examples. What does Amazon Web Services offer specifically and what does Google App Engine offer and how are they similar and different? How do we evaluate these and future offerings to come? This talk addresses key issues surrounding the leveraged use of cloud services for business applications in the enterprise and identifies where the usage differs from the usage of these services in Web 2.0 applications. We use Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine as examples only. This is not a vendor presentation also it is not biased to one vendor - rather it is meant to teach the audience how to evaluate these offerings for their own needs and what checklists might one find useful. We use AWS and GAE as examples as these are the most well known - we also survey the other offerings available so that the audience can get an idea of what is out there and what is coming. This talk is meant for technologists as well as business users.
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