Amazon Web Services

Tuesdays meeting was excellent. It was great to see that we had a representation from people with both technical and management interests in AWS. It was also great to welcome Carri Cunliffe and Claire Haydock from Codeworks Connect.

The running order of the night was:

1. Introduction: a ten minute re-cap on our last meeting. This acted as an introduction of what AWS is and how it may be used. DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION.
2. Technical: a twenty minute presentation on how you can setup an AWS account and get your first EC2 instance up and running. VIEW PRESENTATION.
3. User Presentation: a ten minute presentation from Adrian Teesdale from Inovica. Adrian uses AWS extensively and showed us how he is using AWS to increase his infrastructure capability while also lowering his monthly costs. DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION.
4. Technical: a second technical presentation which explained how to make custom changes to your EC2 instance. VIEW PRESENTATION.

Thank you to everybody who attended. I look forward to seeing you at the next event.

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In preparation for tonights meeting I have uploaded a video of two of our presentations. These are rather technical presentations so I recorded a video of them so that you can watch as often as you like.

Presentation 1:

I show you how to setup your AWS account, setup your PC and then launch your first EC2 instance:

Presentation 2:

I show you how to make changes to your instance, save it and then create a custom EC2 image:

I hope these are of use!

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The second meeting of the Newcastle-Gateshead Amazon Web Services user group will take place on Tuesday 29th January at 5:30.

The event will be held at the Rozmic offices in Gateshead International Business Centre, NE8 1AN).

The running order is:

1) Introduction: a ten minute re-cap on our last meeting. This will act as an introduction of what AWS is and how it may be used.

2) Technical: a twenty minute presentation on how you can setup an AWS account and get your first EC2 instance up and running.

3) User Presentation: a ten minute presentation from a company who use AWS in their business. The presentation will cover why they selected AWS and how it is helping them to bring their services to market.

4) Technical: a second technical presentation which will show you how to make custom changes to your EC2 instance.

Please confirm your attendance by sending an email to Ross Cooney (ross at rozmic dot com).

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