AWS Credits - brief summary
   • Amazon Web Services
     –Simplest service: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
       • Select an image (AMI ~= virtual machine), or create a custom one: like a 
        selecting rental car type
       • Borrow as many instances ( ~= machines) as you need and pay by the 
        hour until you terminate the instance
         – Eg m3.2xlarge: 30GB Ram, 160Gb disk, 8-cpu, 64-bit
           » costs $0.90/hr
         – Eg m1.small: 1.7Gb RAM, no local disk, 1 cpu, 32/64 bit 
           » costs $0.06/hr
     –Also supports map-reduce, etc, etc.
     –What’s the catch?
      AWS Credits - brief summary
   • We have an Amazon grant for this course
     – don’t be constrained by your laptop
   • Allocated: $100/student
     – Ask us and we will give it to you a code
       • Email your request to:  10601awscode@gmail.com
              Redemption site: http://aws.amazon.com/awscredits
              Redemption site: http://aws.amazon.com/awscredits
                    Promotion Name - 
                    Promotion Name - 
              EDU_Course_Cohen_CarnegieMellon_Summer2013
              EDU_Course_Cohen_CarnegieMellon_Summer2013
                  Each Promotion code amount is - 100.0USD
                  Each Promotion code amount is - 100.0USD
                  Promotion Start Date -2013-08-02 00:00:00.0
                  Promotion Start Date -2013-08-02 00:00:00.0
                  Promotion End Date -2014-08-31 00:00:00.0
                  Promotion End Date -2014-08-31 00:00:00.0
   • What is it?
                AWS Credits - the catch(es)
      •   You need to set up an individual AWS account and back it up with 
          your credit card
           – AWS says: “We HIGHLY recommend you remind students to turn 
              off any instances after each class/session – as this can quickly 
              diminish the credits and start charging the card on file. The 
              account holder is responsible for the overages.”
           – I can not erase overages by giving you another code.  
              (Sometimes begging Amazon works, but that’s not guaranteed.)
      •   You can monitor activity (Access management, IAM) and set up 
          “CloudWatch alarms”) to shut down instances. 
           – I’ll send an email to the class with details