The goal of this programming assignment is to enable you to gain experience programming with:
● Amazon Web Services, specifically the EC2 cloud ( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ ), the SQS
queuing service ( http://aws.amazon.com/sqs/ ), S3 ( http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ ), and
DynamoDB ( http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ ).
● You will learn about distributed load balancing and how to distribute work between clients
and workers
This assignment will involve implementing a distributed task execution framework on Amazon EC2
using the SQS. The assignment will be to implement a task execution framework (similar to
CloudKon, http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/publications/2014_CCGrid14_CloudKon.pdf