Amazon AWS Useful Links

The following are useful links while working with Amazon AWS services (not in any particular order):

• http://awsnow.info
• A summary of Amazon Services, Costs, Limitations
• http://cloudping.info
• Used to estimate the latency from your browser to each AWS region
• Amazon AWS direct links
• http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/
• http://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/
• http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/
• http://aws.amazon.com/training/self-paced-labs/
• https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
• http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-templates/
• Amazon AWS Calculator  (google: aws simple monthly calculator)
• http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
• Presentation: AWS Regions and Availability Zones
• http://bit.ly/aws-arch-prezi
• Miscellaneous Google searches
• spot instance strategies
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD9N73F3Fao
• cloud formation templates
• aws case studies
• Netflix Ice Project
• Ice communicates with AWS Programmatic Billing Access and maintains knowledge of the following key AWS entity categories: Accounts, Regions, Services (e.g. EC2, S3, EBS), Usage types (e.g. EC2 - m1.xlarge), Cost and Usage Categories.
•  https://github.com/Netflix/ice