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I'm looking for examples of large websites that are hosted on Amazon EC2/S3/Cloudfront/etc.
I worked at a company where we ran a site that did 500k unique visitors per month on EC2 running 10 instances but that's still relatively small potatoes compared to some larger sites. I know smug mug and foursquare are also hosted on EC2. What other large websites are on EC2?
Reddit uses EC2
How large is 'large'? I know that heroku runs on EC2, and they do a pretty large amount of traffic.
Netflix, DropBox, Zynga (maker of Farmville) are pretty big users of EC2
Instagram uses Amazon... at least their images are hosted on S3. Check out this link:
http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2011/09/17/42923def0eb141fc8bb4ab0c963d0dbc_6.jpg
Also, I'm pretty sure Reddit moved away from Amazon Cloud after the most recent outage.
Here's a link to Amazon case studies that details some of their larger clients:
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/
In the financial world Nasdaq OMX is a good example but virtually every bank uses EC2 for computational needs (not as a main system but highly used by both banks and hedge funds to run simulations).
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i have question about amazon S3 account is it amazon S3 account open for every country . i mean every one can open account like Google drive. ?
This breaks down the services available for each region. It may help you out!
In order to use Amazon S3, you will require an Amazon Web Services account.
Yes, these accounts are available to people in any country.
You will be asked to supply a credit card number.
Once you have your Account, you can start using AWS.
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I want to start my own file storage/backup service like Dropbox, Skydrive, Box etc. I have 60000 customers. I want to give each customer 1GB free space (lifetime). That means I need 60TB of storage. I will increase space for more users time to time. I want my file backup service to be cloud based, redundancy. Can you please tell me how many servers & how powerful servers it's needed? Also, what equipment, accessories it's needed to make a powerful service? From where I can buy them with best price? Please tell me. Also, if you have other information regarding file backup/storage service, it will be helpful for me please. Also feel free to ask me :)
You can build your own service on top of Amazon's cloud infrastructure. See this: http://aws.amazon.com/backup-storage/
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Is there a way to check that my files are already on the edge servers for my users to load from? Or does amazon s3 take time to spread your files around the world? How Long and can I receive notification about when?
So after I uploaded a file, I immediately tested the load speed by asking users from other far away places(like places in Japan). They said that it was rather slower than my current hosting in the US. That's odd because Amazon does have an edge server in Tokyo so Amazon s3 should be faster?
Before I created my bucket, I did set the region to be in the standard US. Is that why? If so, is there a way to set your files to work around the world?
Thank you for your time.
As you already said, your S3 buckets are situated in a specific location, for example us-east, europe, us-west etc. This is the place where your files are physically stored. They are not distributed geographically. Users from other places in the world will experience delay when requesting data from these buckets.
What you are looking for is the Cloudfront CDN from Amazon. You can specify an origin (that would be your S3 bucket in your case) and then your files will be distributed to all the Amazon Cloudfront edge locations worldwide. Check out their FAQ and the list of edge locations.
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We're uploading and serving/streaming media (pics,videos) using amazon s3 for storage combined with cloudfront for serving media. The site is used slightly but the Amazon costs come to 3000 $ per month and from the report 90% of the costs originate from the S3 service .
Heard that cloud can be expensive if you don't code the right way ..now my questions :
What is the right way ? and where should I pay more attention, to the way I upload files or to the way I serve them?
Has anyone else had to deal with unexpected high costs , if yes what was the cause?
We have almost similar model. We stream (rtmp ) from S3 and cloudfront. We do have 1000s of files and decent load, but our monthly bill for s3 is around 50$ ( negligible as compared to your figure). Firstly , you should complain about your charges to the technical support of AWS. They always give you a good response and also suggest better ways to utilize resources. Secondly , I think if you do live streaming, where you divide the file into chucks and stream them one by one, instead of streaming or downloading the whole file, it might be effective , in terms of i/o where users are not watching the whole video, but just the part of it. Also, you can try to utilize caching eat application level.
Another opportunity to get better picture on what's going on in your buckets: Qloudstat
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EC2, RDS charge by the number of hours online, but who would actually benefit from this kind of tariff? Why would a webapp need a server online for only a few hours a day/week/etc.?
The hourly tariffs have many use cases. A big one is scientific research: Astrophysics, Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematics etc. Traditionally universities would have to pay huge amounts of money for computing clusters to be purchased and installed on-site even though they spend most of their time idle and a small amount of time actually processing data.
With the advent of cloud computing, researchers can launch a huge server cluster and have it crunch over data for a few hours or days, get the results and then terminate the cluster. See amazon's high performance computing page for more details. You can also read case studies on how NASA's jet propulsion Lab and European space agency make use of flexible tarriff cloud compute clusters on EC2 for processing their data.
Another use case is for auto-scaling. Amazon's Autoscaling feature allows a load balanced EC2 cluster to be scaled up and down with demand. During heavy load additional servers will be launched and added to the cluster, when load drops again they will be removed. Therefore companies can have massive scalability and only pay for the additional capacity if/when the demand on their web site requires it.
One of the main benefits of cloud deployment is scalability.
For example, if you had an application that served the UK retail industry you might find that your peak usage occurs between 7-9am, 12-2pm and 5-8pm, when your audience are awake/not working.
You may have multiple servers employed during these peak times but only one through the night when traffic is low.
Hourly charging allows for this scalability.