Developer Days 2010
Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
Up in the Cloud
® 2010 Autodesk
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Choosing
the
Right Tool
for the
Job
Up in the
Cloud
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Demo
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Nondisclosure Agreement
 Today’s
discussion is covered under your ADN
Agreement with Autodesk.
 The
information we will be providing is highly
confidential, and is to be shared within your
company on “need to know basis” and to NO
ONE outside your company.
 Autodesk
makes no guarantees that anything
presented or discussed will actually appear in the
future.
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What is Cloud Computing
Author; Sam Johnston, Australian Online Solutions Pty Ltd
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What is Cloud Computing
Author; Sam Johnston, Australian Online Solutions Pty Ltd
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What is Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing – The provisioning, hosting and management of
applications completely within a separately managed infrastructure.
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Advantages of Cloud Computing
Nearly zero initial investment
Pay as you go
Unlimited storage
Comprehensive set of Stable services for:
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Easy access of storage
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Easily deploy custom services
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Easily launch/suspend custom services
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Easily scale resource usage
Evolving new technologies for higher abstraction
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Popular Cloud Providers
Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com)
Windows Azure Platform
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www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/
Google App Engine (appengine.google.com)
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Primary Cloud Services
Data Store Services
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Virtually infinite storage
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Easily accessible. Only internet required
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High availability and low cost of usage
Compute Services
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Choice of computing power and OS
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Scale when needed
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Low cost of usage
Relational Database Services
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Secondary Cloud Services
Automatic Scaling and Load Balancing Services
Messaging services with Pull and Push Notifications
Virtual Private Clouds
Content Distribution
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Major Cloud Service Components
Custom Applications & Services
Database
Content
Delivery
Messaging
Scaling and
Load
Balancing
Virtual Private
Cloud
Cloud Service Management APIs, Development and Deployment Tools
Compute Power
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Storage
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Cloud Application Platform Spectrum
Amazon Web
Services
Google App
Engine
Microsoft
Windows Azure
Ease of Use
Medium
Easy
Easy
Direct “Iron” Access
Yes, with VM
No; Virtual execution
environment
No; Virtual execution
environment
Complex Application
Support
Yes; Commodity hardware.
Lots of flexibility provided to
architect of solution
No; Simple application model,
and restrictive data modeling
tools
TBD: Tools provided by Cloud
OS will determine application
complexity
Maturity
Medium
Medium
Medium
Internet Scale Tools &
Infrastructure
Amazon provides
infrastructure to enable cloud
environment, and tools to run
in that environment
No support for internet scale;
everything capped
MS provides infrastructure to
enable cloud environment,
and tools to run in that
environment (simplicity focus)
Post Deployment
Application
Management
Must manage your application
across servers or leverage 3rd
party
Managed by Google
Managed by MS
Language Support
Any
Java, Python
.NET languages today, Java,
PHP, Ruby to certain extent.
more later
OS Support
Linux*, Windows Server,
Solaris*,..
NA; OS Abstracted
NA; OS Abstracted (Windows
based)
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What will we demonstrate today
Using Amazon Compute Services
Using Azure Compute Services
Using Azure SQL Relational Database Services
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Our Experience with Amazon Web
Services
Getting Started
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Primary AWS Services
Storage Services: Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3)
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http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
Compute Services: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2)
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http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
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First Steps…
Go to aws.amazon.com and click on the “Sign Up Now”
button and follow instructions
Create a public/private key pair on the “security credentials”
page
Note: You have not subscribed to any Amazon cloud
services yet. You have only created an account. You will
not be charged for any services yet. You will only be
charged when you use the cloud services.
This website provides a tutorial for all the above:
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http://bitnami.org/tutorials/create_aws_account
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AWS Developer Resources
Browse to the http://aws.amazon.com/developertools page
and get a feel for different tools you might need
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AWS SDKs
Download the SDK you are comfortable with from the SDK
page. We downloaded and installed the .NET SDK:
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http://aws.amazon.com/code
This site has a nice video tutorial for usage of .NET SDK:
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http://aws.amazon.com/articles/3051
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Amazon Simple Storage Service
Login to the AWS Console from here:
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https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home
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Logging into S3 console, first time…
Click on “Sign Up for Amazon S3” button and follow
instructions
“Usually” get instant access to the S3 service
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Using S3 Service
Begin uploading and downloading using the AWS Console
and/or the API
Third party tools to Manage your Amazon S3 account:
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http://www.flvmate.com/blog/top-8-tools-manage-your-amazon-s3account
Sample attached to demo AWS .NET SDK usage for S3
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Login to the AWS Console from here (and go to the
“Amazon EC2” tab):
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https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home
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Using EC2, first steps…
Click on the “Sign Up For Amazon EC2” button and follow
instructions
Account verification usually takes about a day
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Launching a Virtual Machine “Instance”
EC2 supports creating Instances of Virtual Machines (VM)
with preconfigured Operating System and hardware
configurations
Use the documentation here to get started:
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http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/GettingStarted
Guide/
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Common EC2 Windows VM
Configurations
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Connect to the instance
Explore the running EC2 instance in the AWS
console
Use Microsoft Terminal Services to connect to
your Windows EC2 Instance:
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http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/
GettingStartedGuide/ConnectToInstanceWindows.ht
ml
Create an Elastic IP address and associate
with running VM instance:
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http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/
UserGuide/index.html?concepts-elasticaddressing.html
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Use the VM Instance
Build an application for the VM instance like any other
application on Windows Server
We built a .NET web service using VS 2008 SP1 and
deployed it on the VM:
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http://174.129.41.127/DevdaysApp/GTDemoService.asmx
Here is an AutoCAD .NET sample to use this service
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Demo again….
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The Amazon Bill
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Our Experience with Windows Azure
Platform
Getting Started
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Azure Service Categories
Windows Azure:
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Compute
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Storage
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsazure/default.aspx
SQL Azure:
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsazure/sqlazure/default.aspx
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Where Do I Start… and Finish
Follow the instructions on this page:
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/getstarted/default.aspx
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The SDK
Download from here:
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsazure/cc974146.aspx
You will need Windows 7 OS
Prefer VS 2010 but will work with VS 2008
Installs project templates for creating Azure cloud
applications
“Publish” your Web Application from VS 2010 to the Azure
cloud directly
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What did we create?
A bunch of WCF based Web Services:
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http://adnmonitor.cloudapp.net/TaskMonitorService.svc
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http://adnmonitor.cloudapp.net/aecinfoservice.svc
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http://adnmonitor.cloudapp.net/mfginfoservice.svc
A bunch of websites to use these services:
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http://gthelloazure.cloudapp.net/
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http://gthelloazure.cloudapp.net/Summary.aspx
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http://gthelloazure.cloudapp.net/aecmaterialinfo.aspx
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http://gthelloazure.cloudapp.net/mfgmaterialinfo.aspx
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AutoCAD .NET Client Apps
These apps use the azure services we created
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SQL Azure
Login in to sql.azure.com
Create Databases in the SQL Azure console after login
Access the connection strings for the databases from the
SQL Azure console
Use the SQL Server Management Studio to access these:
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174173(SQL.90).aspx
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http://www.sqlcoffee.com/Troubleshooting066.htm
Use the VS 2010 Server Explorer to access SQL Azure
databases
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Demo
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The Azure Bill
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Developer Days 2010
Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
Up in the Cloud
® 2010 Autodesk
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