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Accenture, 56–57, 120 Amazon SimpleDB, 242–243
Altor Networks, 158 AMD chips, 39, 52–55, 119–120
Amazon Auto Scaling, 30 Ames Research Center, NASA, 207–
Amazon CloudWatch, 30, 135–136, 219
147 Analytics, business, 178–179
Amazon.com, 2, 6, 12, 19–20, 29, 176 Apache Web, 175
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Apex, 141
Cloud): Apparent Networks, 136, 148
building, 29–31, 110–111 Apple Computer, 176
costs of services, 8, 19–20, 30–31, 34 Application programming interface
data centers, 4, 36, 40, 42 (API), 95–97, 122
defined, 235 Applications:
elasticity and scaling up, 29 administration and development,
hardware failure, 146–151 140–142
NASA Nebula, 211–212, 218 backlog, 88–89
private cloud, 70 private cloud, 75–76
as proprietary, 70, 94–96, 98, 107, staging, as workload, 93–94
110–113 testing/quality assurance work-
revenues from, 166 load, 93, 130–131
vendor lock-in, 110–113, 117, 122 virtualization, 58–60, 62–67
virtualization, 52, 64 apps.gov, 208
Amazon Elastic Block Store, 237 AT&T, 109, 116
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, 30 Attack, vulnerabilities to, 152–157
Amazon Elastic MapReduce, 239–240 AWS Import/Export, 233
Amazon Machine Images (AMI), 94,
111–114, 119, 122–123, 146–147,
152, 154, 157, 218 B
Amazon Service Health Dashboard, Bara, John, 120
148–149 Barr, Jeffrey, 120

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