Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing
CIS 500 Information System Decision Making
How Ericsson Benefitted from Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ericsson was able to instantly take advantage of Amazon’s resources. Amazon’s AWS is able to build and manage a global infrastructure to the scale Ericsson needed to support their business. This infrastructure already being in place provides a cost savings benefit. They had the ability to deploy new applications and automated software updates instantly because they were able to scale up and down as demand changed or the business required it. They could access their cloud from anywhere thanks to the freedom of remote access. The web services provided Ericsson with a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform with data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan. The company chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) because they felt AWS was the most integrated public cloud provider in the Rightscale Cloud Management Platform (Rightscale). “The Ericsson team states that having hosting centers in various regions was important for them. AWS also showed a better quality of service with solid management and a proven track record.” (Amazon Web Services, 2012)
Evaluate the scalability, dependability, manageability, and adaptability of Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Rightscale
Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides a complete environment, a processor, memory, and preconfigured software. It offers scalability within minutes on a pay-as-you-go basis. It also reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios. (Amazon Web
CIS 500 Information System Decision Making
How Ericsson Benefitted from Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ericsson was able to instantly take advantage of Amazon’s resources. Amazon’s AWS is able to build and manage a global infrastructure to the scale Ericsson needed to support their business. This infrastructure already being in place provides a cost savings benefit. They had the ability to deploy new applications and automated software updates instantly because they were able to scale up and down as demand changed or the business required it. They could access their cloud from anywhere thanks to the freedom of remote access. The web services provided Ericsson with a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform with data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan. The company chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) because they felt AWS was the most integrated public cloud provider in the Rightscale Cloud Management Platform (Rightscale). “The Ericsson team states that having hosting centers in various regions was important for them. AWS also showed a better quality of service with solid management and a proven track record.” (Amazon Web Services, 2012)
Evaluate the scalability, dependability, manageability, and adaptability of Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Rightscale
Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides a complete environment, a processor, memory, and preconfigured software. It offers scalability within minutes on a pay-as-you-go basis. It also reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios. (Amazon Web