Cloud 101 For Data Science

This lesson introduces you to the basics of the Amazon Web Services public cloud. We cover the fundamentals of cloud computing and go through both motivation and process involved in moving your research computing to the cloud.

Schedule

10:15 Introduction Why and when should we use the cloud?
How do we use the cloud for data science?
Who is / are AWS?
10:35 Storing data in the cloud What are the three primary ways of talking to the cloud?
What are the main activities supported by cloud consoles?
11:05 Doing computations in the cloud What can we use a cloud machine for?
11:45 Finish