June 3rd, 2007 |

Have you ever needed to scale up an online business very quickly? Have you ever wished that you could stop worrying about infrastructure and easily scale up on down your online operations to meet demad? Have you ever dreamed of having an online platform that had the same reliability characteristics as Amazon.com? Well if so, HostingCon 2007 presents a great educational and networking opportunity for your business.

Jinesh Varia, Evangelist with Amazon Web Services will be co-presenting the keynote presentation entitled, Hosted Services - What’s Next?. Jinesh will explain the benefits of Amazon’s Web Services products and how these concepts will change the landscape of hosted services.

I recently caught up with Jinesh to see what might come up in the presentation. Jinesh commented, “We will be showcasing our newest Infrastructure-As-A-Service offerings Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (still in beta) and Amazon Simple Storage Service from the hosting perspective and highlight its advantages over traditional hosting.”

According to the Amazon Web Services website, “Amazon has spent 11 years and over $2 billion building the infrastructure, technical knowledge, and operational excellence to operate a world class web-scale computing platform. Amazon Web Services has now released a variety of web services (programmatic access to its open APIs) that enable developers to leverage Amazon’s data and robust infrastructure, easily and inexpensively. These fundamental services allow external developers and businesses to build their web applications in a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective manner.”

The essence of the product is that one can dynamically scale an online system up or down and pay only for what’s used.

Jinesh went on to comment on his thinking on attending this year’s event, “HostingCon attracts the finest and brightest people from the hosting industry and it will be the right place to spread our vision. We feel that our infrastructure services - especially Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 - will change the way people think about hosting. Features like the ability to consume hosting services in variable units (by the hour or by the GB), and the ability to spawn up an Amazon-class server by a web service call will not only give resellers, distributors, and hosting providers new ways to do businesses but also give developers new way to develop cost-effective applications.”

Jinesh also provided the following links for reference:

Here’s a good overview of the Amazon Web Services done by BusinessWeek Online.

The Amazon Web Services that will be the subject of Jinesh’s presentation -
Amazon EC2, and - Amazon S3.

This content was written by Derek Vaughan and provided courtesy of the hosting experts at The Hosting News.