AWS Event in NYC

Paul Tepper Fisher and Rajiv Pant are scheduled to present at Amazon’s Cloud for the Enterprise Event in New York on Monday, October 19th. Paul and Rajiv will be presenting a case-study of our experiences using Amazon’s EC2 and S3 cloud platforms for Wired.com and reddit.com. Cloud Computing is gaining significant traction throughout numerous industries, however it is often perceived as a platform most suitable for start-ups and small organizations.

Our presentation (as well as Jeremy’s presentation from last week) will hopefully begin to erode the mindset that the Cloud is ideal for smaller and simpler applications. We are only beginning to leverage cloud platforms on the projects we will be discussing on Monday, but the potential and current results have been significant. Wired.com and reddit.com both represent high-traffic websites with architectures that are comprised of multiple layers — designs that are not typical of what is currently considered the norm for applications running on EC2 or Google AppEngine. We are hoping that our presentations will bring more awareness and legitimacy for using Cloud Platforms within larger enterprises — either as the entire infrastructure, or for augmenting a legacy or dedicated hosting model. We will also discuss the benefit of using cloud platforms for testing and staging endeavors.

We will be sure to post the final presentations on the website as soon as they are available. However, if you are in the New York area, we recommend stopping by if you have signed up for the event. You can find more information about Amazon’s Cloud for the Enterprise event on their website.