I. Intro & Logistics II. AWS Overview Goal: There are a huge number of AWS service and product offerings. We’ll cover the ones most of interest to people involved in informatics and high performance computing. All of the currently available AWS offerings will be discussed, with particular attention paid to the services of most use in science & engineering use cases. III. Mapping Informatics to the Cloud Goal: Discuss the major environmental, performance and architecture differences between HPC, grid and cluster environments and the AWS cloud environment. Real-world information, “lessons learned” and examples will be used. IV. AWS: Billing & Credential Management Goal: Briefly cover the logistics and mechanisms behind organizational billing and credential management. This module will also take a deeper dive into the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service which now enables a much more fine-grained access control, usage monitoring and credential model. V. AWS: EC2 Overview Goal: Light introduction to Amazon EC2 to cover definitions & capabilities before we start making heavy use of EC2 instances in live demos and class handouts. VI. AWS: Configuration Management Goal: Configuration management of EC2 AMIs is a major component in deploying cloud applications in a reliable, repeatable and easy to manage process. It’s also the first area where cloud novices get bogged down in methods and practices that may increase complexity and administrative burden. For this topic, we will demonstrate several basic methods & techniques before introducing Chef Server (http://www.opscode.com/chef/) as our own preferred method for systems provisioning & configuration management. VII. AWS: Identity Management Goal: There are some cases where individual access via SSH keys may not be sufficient (such as with web applications). This module covers various methods of Identity Management on cloud-resident systems. VIII. AWS: Monitoring & Reporting Goal: Discuss and demonstrate a number of different monitoring & reporting options. Specific focus on Amazon Cloudwatch (AWS product offering), Server Density (commercial solution from www.serverdensity.com), Hyperic HQ Open Source Edition (open source solution from www.hyperic.com) and SyslogNG (www.balabit.com) for logfile consolidation. IV. Putting it all together Goal: Using a real-world use case we will discuss and show several different legacy deployment methods utilizing Amazon Web Services. The “legacy” methods are for supporting existing applications and workstreams that may have been built for HPC clusters and compute farms. Day One will showcase the “legacy” methods while Day Two will showcase a more traditional cloud architecture using current AWS best practices. V. Wrap-up & Discussion Goal: Discuss and review the topics of the day with particular focus on identifying attendee interest in areas that were not covered or were not covered enough. Time is being left open in the “Day Two” schedule to handle inclusion of additional topics or demonstrations.