Date: Tuesday Feb 13, 2007
Time: 6-9pm
Location: Microsoft Phoenix Office
Summary: Amazon Web Services
Session Description
What’s possible beyond Web 2.0? Innovation continues at a mind-bending pace and this presentation will showcase some thought-provoking new directions that Web Services are headed in. For example, what if computers could programmatically make request for humans to perform tasks?
Amazon spent ten years and over $2 billion developing a world-class technology and content platform that powers Amazon web sites for millions of customers every day. Most people think of the retail site, Amazon.com, however developers are excited to learn that there is a separate technology arm of the company, known as Amazon Web Services or AWS. Using AWS, developers can build software applications leveraging the same robust, scalable, and reliable technology that powers Amazon’s business. AWS has now launched eleven services with open API’s for developers to build applications, resulting in over 200,000 registered developers and hundreds of innovative applications.
Jinesh Varia, evangelist for Amazon Web Services, will provide an overview of Amazon Web Services, and feature a code demonstration of his ASP.NET project code-named ‘S3Whois’ – AJAX based “WhoIs” implementation for emails based on Amazon Simple Storage Service (a.k.a. Amazon S3). Highlights will include a code sample that shows how to quickly create a C# Client to use Amazon S3 as a virtual storage drive. The session will technical in nature and will show how simple it is to create an ASP.NET/C# client using REST and SOAP API of Amazon S3. Varia will also demonstrate a Web Service named Mechanical Turk that allows computers to make requests of people.
Jinesh can be contacted at jvaria@amazon.com
Bio
Jinesh Varia is focused on furthering awareness of web services and inspiring developers to create innovative applications using Amazon Web Services. Jinesh also helps developers on a 1:1 basis and help them implement their own ideas using Amazon’s innovative services. You might find him at the local code camp and involved in all the geeky things that happen in Web world.
Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, Jinesh was involved in an XML/XBRL Standards-based firm, UBmatrix, as Solutions Architect and Enterprise Team Lead working on various financial services projects including Call Modernization Project at FDIC which was .NET Enterprise Application that collects, manages and validates quarterly reports from 8,600 banks in XBRL. He was served Institute of Regional Affairs as lead developer at Penn State Data Center.