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We will be kicking off our new season of RAWSUG meetings in style. Jinesh Varia, a technology evangelist from Amazon Web Services will be joining us for the evening with lots of great information about current AWS activity and some insight about what might be coming down the road. See Jin's abstract below for more info.

The meeting will be held on the RIT campus in room 70-2400 (the IT department's conference room) on 9/23 from 6PM until 8PM. Pizza will be provided by our sponsor, CloudRight. Don't miss out!

The attached map indicates the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences (building 70) where the meeting will be held. There is visitor parking in lot J.

Cloud Architectures – Amazon Web Services

In this session, Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, will discuss the latest innovations and new technology trends like Utility computing (Paying by the hour, paying by the Gigabyte usage), Virtualization and Web Services in the Cloud and most importantly, discuss a new and emerging way to designing architectures.

In this session, we will learn about a unique way to build service oriented architectures by building it in-the-cloud. Cloud Architectures are Service-Oriented Architectures designed for On-demand Infrastructure. Infrastructure come alive on trigger of user request or a job request, scale elastically up and down and dispose themselves automatically when the job is processed. We will learn how developers can take advantage of this new concept that can quickly scale up their infrastructure programmatically (using web services) and without any upfront heavy infrastructure investment. Often termed as Cloud Computing, we will see how these technologies are changing the way we do business today.

Amazon Web Services provides Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) that allows requisition of machines on-demand using simple web service call and paying for computation by the hour. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) which is infinite storage in the cloud and Amazon SimpleDB which is the Database in the cloud and how these services can help local companies to scale-out and go live quickly. Also, we will see some exciting apps and some unique business models that are built on AWS that have become profitable businesses and others that are just simply cool to see.

PRESENTER
JINESH VARIA, TECHNOLOGY EVANGELIST, AMAZON WEB SERVICES
As a Technology Evangelist at Amazon, Jinesh Varia helps developers take advantage of disruptive technologies that are going to change the way we think about computer applications, and the way businesses compete in the new web world. Jinesh has spoken at more than 50 conferences/User Groups. He is focused on furthering awareness of web services and often helps developers on 1:1 basis in implementing their own ideas using Amazon’s innovative services.
Jinesh has over 9 years experience in XML and Web services and has worked with standards-based working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions in UBmatrix including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software engineer, working on various financial services projects including Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh’s publications have been published in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Penn State University. He plays tennis and loves to trek.