NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 14 October 2009 NYLUG: Tobias Abdon and Matt Tavis on Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services

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  reminder="At 6:00 pm today, Tuesday 13 October 2009,
            the NYLUG Python Workshop meets at
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            66 Leroy St., NY NY 10014"
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 From: NYLUG Announcements <info@nylug.org>
 To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce@nylug.org>
 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:30:01 -0400 (EDT)
 Subject: [nylug-announce] TOMORROW! NYLUG 10/14 Meeting: Tobias Abdon & Matt 
Tavis on Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services
 Reply-To: Announcements from NYLUG <nylug-announce@nylug.org>

 REMINDER: This meeting is tomorrow, RSVP closes TOMORROW
 Visit http://rsvp.nylug.org to see if RSVP is still open.

 Wednesday, October 14, 2009
 6:30pm-8:00 PM
 IBM
 590 Madison Ave, 12th Floor
 corner of 57th Street

 ** RSVP Closes at 4:30pm the day of the meeting (sharp!) ***
 Please RSVP for EVERY meeting at this time.
 Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/
 Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge.

       
                       Tobias Abdon & Matt Tavis
                                - on  -
               Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services

 Everyone's talking about "The Cloud", but what exactly is it?  Please join
 us Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 6pm for a discussion about Cloud
 Computing with Amazon Web Services.

 Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided users of all
 sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud.  With AWS
 you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services-gaining
 access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services on demand.
 With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform
 or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you're trying
 to solve.

 The first half of the presentation will start with an overview of AWS,
 exploring each individual service.  Then the services will be pieced
 together to show how they work together with open source projects.
 After that the focus will shift to several open source projects that run
 on the cloud, including Linux and Hadoop.

 The second half of the presentation will be a hands on demonstration of
 deploying a custom Linux server on the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
 service.  A simple web application will be installed on the server, which
 will then be configured to auto-scale.  To cap off the demonstration, a
 cloud based load generation tool will be used to trigger the auto-scaling
 configuration.

 More Information:
   * Amazon Web Services
     http://aws.amazon.com/

   * What is it?
     http://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/

   * Security
     http://aws.amazon.com/security/

   * Operating Systems
     http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#os

   * Support Providers
     http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/

 About Tobias Abdon:
   Tobias Abdon has a background in IT infrastructure implementation and
   management.  In that role his primary focus was on deploying high speed
   data networks for enterprises in the US and Canada.  He has moved away
   from being hands on inside the datacenter, to consulting clients on how
   to best leverage infrastructure based cloud computing services with
   Amazon.

 About Matt Tavis:
   Matt Tavis is the senior technical manager for Amazon ECS web service
   and Amazon Associates. 

 Meeting Location:
   Please note that this meeting will be held at IBM, 590 Madison Ave,
   12th floor, corner of 57th Street, and not at Google.  This is
   the building with the IBM logo on the front of the building.

 Map:
   http://nylug.org/mapofibm

 Books!!!
   Our friends at Prentice-Hall kindly provide us with review copies
   of various new titles.  One of these could be yours, all you have
   to do is agree to review the book within a reasonable period of
   time.

 Swag (Give Away):
   During/after the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be given
   away.

 Stammtisch:
   After the meeting ... You may wish to join up with other NYLUGgers
   over at TGI Fridays located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th
   Street, second floor. Northeast corner.

 Python Workshops/Hacking Society:
   We are a group that wants to learn about Python and other things,
   and hack on code.  Sometimes we go out to eat afterward.

   The workshops meet every other Tuesday, at the NY Public Library,
   Hudson Park Branch.  66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
   Next meeting is October 13, expected to be followed by October 27.
   See the calendar at: http://nylug.org/pythoncalendar

 Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
 version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
 stuff.
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