1. Public Clouds Overview
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Public Clouds Overview
Amazon, Google App Engine, Azure, Rackspace, …
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Svetlin Nakov
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2. Table of Contents What is a Public Cloud? Public PaaS Clouds
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google App Engine (GAE)
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rackspace
PHP Fog
Heroku
Engineyard

3. Table of Contents (2) Choosing a Public Cloud Force.com AppForce
AppHarbor
Red Hat OpenShift
CloudBees
OpenLogic CloudSwing
VMware Cloud Foundry
Oracle Public Cloud
Choosing a Public Cloud

4. What is a Public Cloud?
Hot It Works?

5. What is a Public Cloud? Public clouds Examples of public clouds
Provide computing resources on demand
Publicly in Internet, for everyone
Paid or free of charge (to some limit)
Could be IaaS, PaaS, SaaS or mix of them
Examples of public clouds
Amazon AWS, Google App Engine, Windows Azure, Rackspace, PHP Fog, Heroku, Force.com AppForce, Engineyard, AppHarbor, OpenShift, CloudBees, CloudSwing, Cloud Foundry, Oracle Public Cloud, Salesforce, WordPress.com, …

6. Amazon Web Services (AWS)

7. Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The pioneer of the public clouds
Provides cloud platform and services from 2002
Provides IaaS and PaaS on demand
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Virtual machines on demand
Runs Windows / Linux / other OS
Multiple locations: US, EU, Japan, Brazil, …

8. Amazon Web Services (2) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Virtual hard disk (HDD) volumes
Used with the EC2 to keep the OS file system
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Hosting binary data (files, images, videos, etc.)
Accessible through the Web
With or without authentication

9. Amazon Web Services (3) Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Amazon DynamoDB / SimpleDB
Managed NoSQL cloud database
Highly scalable, fault-tolerant
DynamoDB is newer and faster than SimpleDB
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Managed MySQL and Oracle databases
Scalability, automated backup, replication

10. Amazon Web Services (4) Other AWS services Pricing
Amazon SQS (message queue)
Amazon CloudFront (content delivery network)
Amazon ElastiCache (caching)
Amazon Route 53 (cloud DNS)
Amazon SES ( )
Pricing
On-demand pricing (per hour / per GB)
Has 1-year free trial (credit card required)

11. Google App Engine (GAE)

12. Google App Engine Google App Engine (GAE)
Leading Java and Python PaaS public cloud
Infrastructure similar to the one driving GMail and Google Docs operated by Google
App Engine has a completely free version
Provides CPU / bandwidth / storage capable to serve page views / month
Instant registration with SMS confirmation

13. Google App Engine Services
App Engine instances
Computing units that host the applications
Fully managed sandboxes (they are not VMs!)
Provide CPU + RAM + storage + language runtime
App Engine backends
Like the App Engine instances
But provides higher computing resources
Used for background processing

14. Google App Engine Services (2)
App Engine datastores
Provide NoSQL schemaless object database
Supports transacts and a query-engine (GQL)
High-replication datastore (HRD)
Master-slave datastore (faster but less-reliable)
Cloud SQL
Managed MySQL in the App Engine cloud
Blobstore / Cloud Storage
Store files / blobs, has with ACL and REST API

15. Google App Engine Services (3)
MapReduce API
Highly-scalable parallel computing API for heavy computing tasks (based on Hadoop)
Channel API
Push notifications for JavaScript applications
Task Queues
Services for execution of background work
Memcache
Distributed in-memory data cache

16. App Engine for Java & Python
Google App Engine for Java
Java 6 in a sandbox environment
Java Web apps ( WARs) / Servlets / JSPs + GWT
Persistence with JPA and JDO in the datastore
java.net, JavaMail and JCache + Eclipse plugin
Google App Engine for Python
Python 2.5 in a sandbox environment
Supports rich frameworks like Django
Persistence API for the datastore service

17. Microsoft Windows Azure

18. Windows Azure Microsoft Windows Azure Fast-growing public cloud
Operated by Microsoft
Provides IaaS cloud (Windows VMs)
Provides rich PaaS platform
Mainly for .NET developers
Provides also Java, PHP and Node.js APIs
No free version, only 3 months trial
Bulgarian citizens cannot register!

19. Windows Azure Services
Windows Azure Compute
Computing instances run Windows OS and applications (CPU + RAM + HDD)
Web role
Internet Information Services (IIS) machine for hosting Web applications and WCF services
Worker role
Long-running computations
VM role
Windows virtual machine (non-persistent)

20. Windows Azure Services (2)
Azure data storage services
Azure Table Storage
Distributed highly-scalable cloud database (stores entities with properties)
Azure Queue Storage
Message queue service
Azure Blobs / Drives
Blob / file storage
NTFS volumes

21. Windows Azure Services (3)
SQL Azure
SQL Server in the cloud
Highly-available and scalable relational DB
Azure Business Analytics
Create reports with tables, charts, maps, etc.
Azure CDN
Content delivery network
Azure Caching
Distributed, in-memory, application cache

22. IaaS Platform for Cloud Hosting
Rackspace
IaaS Platform for Cloud Hosting

23. Rackspace Has 25-days free trial (credit card required)
Rackspace is mainly IaaS cloud hosting provider
Provide Linux / Windows VMs on demand
Scalable on demand, pricing by hour
Data centers worldwide
Provides few other cloud services
Cloud Files – cloud file storage, like Amazon S3
Cloud Sites – SaaS hosting for WordPress, Joomla, OSCommerce, ASP.NET apps, etc.
Cloud Load Balancers, Cloud DNS
Has 25-days free trial (credit card required)

24. PHP Fog
PHP Cloud Platform

25. PHP Fog PHP Fog (www.phpfog.com)
Well-developed and stable cloud platform for PHP applications
Combines PaaS and SaaS models
Supports standard LAMP stack for PHP
PHP + MySQL + PHP frameworks like CakePHP, Zend Framework, Yii Framework, Code Igniter
One-click install for many PHP applications
WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, MediaWiki, SugarCRM, etc.

26. PHP Fog Add-Ons PHP Fog Add-Ons (phpfog.com/addons) MongoHQ database
Mailgun mail server
Blitz performance testing
IronWorker task queue
IronMQ message queue
MongoLab MongoDB
NewRelic performance monitoring

27. The PHP Fog Platform PHP Fog uses Git source control system
Developers work locally and commit in Git
The committed code is automatically deployed
The platform
Nginx load balancer
Varnish caching
Apache web server + mod_php
MySQL highly-available database
PHP fog has completely free limited version

28. Rich and Powerful Cloud Platform
Heroku
Rich and Powerful Cloud Platform

29. Heroku Heroku is a leading public PaaS platform
Supports very broad stack of technologies
Everything except .NET and PHP (officially)
Development stacks
Java + Spring + Hibernate + PostgreSQL / MySQL / MongoDB + Memcache + Tomcat / Jetty
Ruby + Rails + MongoDB / MySQL + Memcache
Python + Django + Memcache + PostgreSQL
JavaScript + Node.js + MySQL / MongoDB

30. The Heroku Platform Routing Dynos – managed workers Back-ends systems
HTTP load balancers
Dynos – managed workers
Web / Worker / Cron
Back-ends systems
DB: MySQL / PostgreSQL
Add-ons: MongoDB, Redis
Auto-scaling technology
Logging and monitoring (Logplex)
Git-based deployment

31. Heroku Add-Ons Large set of add-ons for developers
Airbrake, Amazon RDS, Apigee for Facebook, Apigee for Twitter, Appoxy SimpleWorker, Blitz, Chargify, ClearDB MySQL, Cloudant (CouchDB + MapReduce), CloudMailin, Cron, Custom Domains, DbInsights, Deploy Hooks, DocRaptor, DynectSMB, Exceptional, Flying Sphinx, Heroku PG Backups, Heroku PostgreSQL, Heroku Scheduler, Heroku Shared PostgreSQL, Hoptoad, IndexTank, IronMQ

32. Heroku Add-Ons (2) Large set of add-ons for developers
IronWorker, JustOneDB, Loggly, Mailgun, Memcache, MongoHQ, MongoLab, Moonshado SMS, Neo4j, New Relic, Panda Stream, Progstr Logger, PubNub, Pusher, RabbitMQ, Ranger, Redis To Go, RESTful Metrics, RhoConnect, Searchify IndexTank, Sendgrid, SimpleGeo, SSL, Stackmob, StatsMix, StatsMix Heroku, Integration Tutorial, StillAlive, Tddium, Treasure Data Hadoop, Tronprint, Websolr, Xeround, Zencoder, Zerigo DNS, …

33. More about Heroku Heroku Heroku has a completely free limited version
Runs millions of applications
Owned by Salesforce.com
Founded in 2007, fast growing and mature
Heroku has a completely free limited version
750 computing hours
100 MB storage + 5 MB database
Credit card not required

34. Cloud Platform for Ruby on Rails and PHP
Engineyard
Cloud Platform for Ruby on Rails and PHP

35. Engineyard Engineyard Built-in load balancer (Nginx)
Cloud PaaS platform for Ruby and PHP
Build on top of Amazon AWS
Managed Ruby on Rails stack
Orchestra PHP Cloud
Free 500-hours trial (without credit card)
Built-in load balancer (Nginx)
Deploy with Git and Subversion
Rich set of add-ons (platform services)

36. Engineyard Platform Services
Engineyard Platform Services (Add-Ons)
Airbrake, Appcelerator, Blitz, CloudFlare, CloudKick, CloudMailin, DNSimple, DocRaptor, Exceptional, Iron.io, Logentries, Loggly, MailGun, MongoHQ, MongoLab, New Relic, OneSky, ReportGrid API, Pusher, SendGrid, StillAlive, SpacialDB, SimpleWorker, Twilio, Xeround, Zencoder, …
engineyard.com/partners/platform-services

37. Application Development for Business Users
Force.com AppForce
Application Development for Business Users

38. Force.com and AppForce What is Force.com? What is Force.com AppForce?
Platform for creating and deploying applications for the social enterprise
Build social and mobile functionality, business processes, reporting, and search
What is Force.com AppForce?
Application development for business users
Drag-and-drop tools, pre-built components, pre-designed user interfaces
Launch new apps in minutes

39. AppForce Development
Applications are developed in a Web-based editor + the Force.com IDE (Eclipse based tool)
Proprietary languages, APIs, frameworks, tools

40. AppForce Development Platform
Proprietary programming language (Apex)
Proprietary database + reporting + analytics
Proprietary UI technology (Visualforce MVC)
Proprietary Web site builder, Mobile app builder, …

41. AppForce Development Platform (2)

42. AppHarbor
.NET Cloud Made Easy

43. AppHarbor AppHarbor – public cloud platform for .NET apps
Supports a classical .NET development stack
C#, .NET Framework, ASP.NET (Web Forms and MVC), WCF, WWF, ADO.NET Entity Framework, …
Deployment through Git / SVN / TFS
Automated build process (compile + unit tests)
Build-in load balancing
Built on top of Amazon AWS infrastructure
Rich set of add-on services

44. AppHarbor: Add-On Services
Airbrake (error logging)
Blitz (performance monitoring)
CloudAMQP (RabbitMQ)
Cloudant (CouchDB)
CloudMailin (incoming )
Dedicated SQL Server
JustOneDB (NoSLQ database)
Logentries (log management)
Mailgun ( send / receive)

45. AppHarbor: Add-On Services (2)
Memcacher (in-memory caching)
MongoHQ (managed MongoDB)
MongoLab (managed MongoDB)
MySQL (shared MySQL DB)
RavenHQ (NoSQL database)
Redis To Go (key-value store)
SendGrid ( delivery)
StillAlive (app monitoring)
Shared SQL Server (managed instance)

46. Public Cloud for LAMP and Java Applications
Red Hat OpenShift
Public Cloud for LAMP and Java Applications

47. OpenShift What is OpenShift? OpenShift Express
A free, auto-scaling platform-as-a-service for Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl and Python applications
Developed and supported by Red Hat
Can be installed locally or in the cloud
Deployment through Git push
OpenShift Express
Completely free version, hosted in a shared cloud server infrastructure

48. OpenShift Development Stacks
OpenShift runs hosted Red Hat Linux
You have SSH console
Java + JEE 6 + CDI/Weld + Spring + Seam
PHP + Zend / CakePHP / Symfony / CodeIgniter
Python + Pylons / Turbogears / Django
Ruby + Rails / Sinatra
Perl + PerlDancer
Databases (relational + NoSQL)
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB

49. Public PaaS Cloud for Java Developers
CloudBees
Public PaaS Cloud for Java Developers

50. CloudBees
CloudBees is end-to-end Java cloud platform for development and deployment
Supports Java and Java EE
Java Web applications, Servlets, JSP, JavaServer faces (JSF), Spring, JPA, Liferay portal, …
Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, CouchDB
Jenkins Continuous Integration
Built on top of Amazon AWS
Provides limited free edition

51. The CloudBees Platform

52. CloudBees Add-Ons Sauce Labs OnDemand (cross-browser testing)
New Relic (app monitoring)
Cloudant (managed Apache CouchDB)
SonarSource (source code inspection)
MongoHQ (managed MongoDB)
XWiki Cloud (cloud wiki)
Papertrail (log management)
Codesion (Subversion, Git and ALM)
SendGrid ( sender)
Websolr (search engine)

53. Powerful Cloud for Almost any Technology
OpenLogic CloudSwing
Powerful Cloud for Almost any Technology

54. OpenLogic CloudSwing CloudSwing – flexible PaaS cloud platform
Very broad range of technologies
Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Python, LAMP, Java, Tomcat, Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Node.js, Unicorn, NGinx
Highly-customizable, deployable on Amazon AWS and Rackspace
Has highly-limited free edition
30 free Amazon hours

55. PaaS cloud for Java, Ruby and Node.js
VMware Cloud Foundry
PaaS cloud for Java, Ruby and Node.js

56. VMware Cloud Foundry VMware Cloud Foundry How Cloud Foundry works?
Open-source cloud computing platform as a service (PaaS) software
Developed by VMware
Pricing model is still unclear
How Cloud Foundry works?
You develop and run cloud apps locally (in a VM)
Later you can deploy apps to the public cloud
E.g. in Amazon AWS, Rackspace, CloudFoundry.com, etc.

57. Cloud Foundry Architecture

58. Public Cloud for Java EE and Oracle
Oracle Public Cloud
Public Cloud for Java EE and Oracle

59. Oracle Public Cloud Oracle Public Cloud Oracle PaaS offerings
Run Java EE + Oracle database in a managed cloud environment
Combines PaaS and SaaS
Oracle PaaS offerings
Java + Java EE (JSP, JSF, Servlet, EJB, JPA, JAX- RS and JAX-WS) + WebLogic App Server + clustering + ADF + ADF Faces + …
Oracle Database + high-availability + data analysis + data loading + RESTful API

60. Oracle Public Cloud (2) Oracle SaaS offerings Oracle Public Cloud
Fusion CRM on demand
Customer relationship management
Fusion HCM on demand
Human capital management
Oracle Social Network on demand
Oracle Public Cloud
Pricing model is still unclear

61. C#
Java
HTML 5
PHP
Python
coding
Ruby
Other Public Clouds

62. Other Public Clouds / Services
SAP NetWeaver Cloud
Should combine SaaS and PaaS
Just like Oracle, but for the SAP platform
Still under development
Cloud9 IDE online (
Powerful cloud-based JavaScript IDE
Supports also editing PHP / C# / Java / … / code
Jelastic (jelastic.com)
Highly scalable Java cloud

63. Choosing a Public Cloud
Clouds
Choosing a Public Cloud
Guidelines for Choosing a Public Cloud

64. Choosing a Public Cloud
How to choose a public cloud for your app?
PHP  PHP Fog / Engineyard
.NET  Azure / AppHarbor
Java  Google App Engine / Heroku / OpenShift / CloudBees / Oracle Public Cloud
Ruby  Engineyard / Heroku / OpenShift
Python  App Engine / Heroku / OpenShift
Always consider using IaaS clouds
And build your own platform on top of them

65. Public Clouds Overview
Questions?