Princeton University
Computer Science Department

Computer Science 448
Innovating Across Technology, Business, & Markets

Jaswinder Singh

Spring 2011


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Writeup #6 - Submit

For this writeup you will assume a startup that is considering moving to Amazon's infrastructure. Your startup is based on cloud storage of video files and providing services for automatic format conversion of these files. You will work in groups. Both group partners will submit a file writeup_6.txt individually. And you will submit another file equations.pdf as a group (designate one person to submit this file, and mention the name of the other group partner). The word limit for writeup_6.txt is reduced to 300 words for this writeup. The page limit for equations.pdf is 1-page. You can write the equations in any format (Microsoft Word, Latex, hand-written and then scanned) as long as you convert to PDF.

You currently host your system on a small cloud provider that offers a flat rate per month for a compute instance. The rate includes the total hardisk space, allocated memory, and maximum bandwidth allowed. Your startup is getting more clients and is growing. Your CEO has asked you to present a report where you analyze the decision of moving to Amazon's cloud infrastructure from an optimization point-of-view. Amazon is offering three levels of services: