Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services is an exciting collection of services for moving your applications and data to a cloud-based infrastructure. Beaocn Hill has been working with AWS since its inception in 2006. This experience can help you get into the cloud faster and with more confidence. This experience can be leveraged by your organization as it moves to cloud-based infrastructures.

Intrastructure Services

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud allows yo

Amazon SimpleDB

Amazon SimpleDB works in conjunction with Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 to run queries on structured data in real time.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data. Typically, organizations start with S3 by storing static data and then as they become more confortable move to storing more dynamic data. A good place to start is with static images on web sites for example. As you start moving more data to S3 a good Java library to consider it JetS3t Also, if you want a simple command line utility to copy into and out of S3 consider Beacon Hill's own S3cp.

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is a web service that makes it easy to distribute content with low latency via a global network of edge locations.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

Amazon Simple Queue Service provides a hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers, making it easy to build automated workflow between Web services.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce

Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data.

Amazon Relational Database Service

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources.