Amazon Web Services provides one of the most awesomely complicated suites of tools you can use to power a web application, which is why most of its users use less than 1% of its features. The primary goal of this session is to show you how companies like Netflix and Airbnb build bulletproof technology empires in the cloud using Amazon's IaaS.

Topics covered will include:

• Custom private network topology
• Load balancing, monitoring, and autoscaling
• Cache clusters and queues
• Highly available relational databases
• Cloud storage and content delivery

This session is intended as a primer for building secure, scalable web infrastructure at low cost to you and your clients.