IC&SR, IIT Madras
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036

Amazon Web Services(AWS) is an interesting building block for software applications as it provides reliable, scalable web application infrastructure. The building blocks include Amazon S3 for storage, EC2 for computing, SQS for orchestration, Mturk for Human Intelligence Task fulfillment, and many more. Jinesh Varia evangalist from AWS team will be presenting an interactive session

AWS, though very attractive in terms of functionality and pricing has several barriers for easy adoption by businesses. There is tremendous scope for value addition on top of the AWS building blocks and integrating AWS building blocks with other Web infrastructure and/or business processes. Thus there is lot of scope for garage startups to emerge out of AWS ecosystem.
At the enterprise side with the emergence/prevalence of Internet, moving their costly IT/data centers on to the Cloud is becoming compelling. Find out how Amazon Web Services, help in realizing this strategy.

More than anything, the event is about networking and peer-to-peer showcasing.

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Added by labsji on October 30, 2007