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Technical Report TR-08-07: An Evaluation of Amazon’s Grid Computing Services: EC2, S3 and SQS Simson L. Garfinkel Center for Research on Computation and Society School for Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Cambridge, MA simsong@ Abstract cluster of computers on a parallelizable large-scale prob- lem, at a cost of 10 cents per thousand messages. All of A’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple these services are sold without startup fees and with no Storage Service (S3) and Simple Queue Service (SQS) minimum pricing, potentially making them attractive for offer enterprise-class computing, storage and coordina- individuals, universities and corporations alike. tion facilities to any organization or individual in the world with a valid credit card. This paper details our experience working with these commodity grid comput- 1.1 Utility Computing with AWS ing services between November 2006 and May 2007, Businesses, universities and government users may con- including an analysis of the overall system’s API and sider cluster computing as a potential solution to their ease-of-use; an analysis of EC2’s management and secu- computing needs. But building and operating even a rity facilities; an end-to-end performance analysis of S3’s relatively small cluster can be a formidable undertak- throughput and latency as observed from Ama