Description:

Amazon Web Services Senior Evangelist Jeff Barr will discuss the latest developments in AWS including the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and the Amazon Relational Database Service. Jeff will show how these services can be used to build powerful and highly scalable applications in the cloud.

Jeff will introduce the EC2 Gem to instantiate EC2 objects (instances, IP addresses, and disk volumes), and then connect them to each other, all through code, driving home a really important fact about the cloud -- that it is fully programmable and that a set of powerful APIs sits at the base of the stack.