Utility and Automation: Low Overhead Operations with Amazon and Puppet

Utility and Automation: Low Overhead Operations with Amazon and Puppet

Small to medium business can pay a heavy overhead in data center hardware and staffing costs, particularly in growth phases. The advent of utility computing meshes well with automation tools to significantly reduce this overhead and provide greater agility to businesses that would otherwise have laborious spin up processes for projects and customers.

This session will demonstrate an example scenario from Janrain and discuss the implications, benefits, and pitfalls of moving to a utility cloud computing architecture from a traditional co-located hosting environment.

Of particular emphasis in this talk are the following concepts: Agility introduced with virtualized hosts Repeatability and modularity of configuration management Simplicity of redundancy, high availability, and business continuity Benefits of pay as you go models vs contract tiers Real world business examples of pros and cons of cloud hosting