Question

Project Name: AWS: EC2 + EBS + Elastic IP

Technology: Cloud Computing

Market: Delivery for Traditional SME with Scale for Growth

Student:  

Directions: Configure infrastructure on AWS as detailed below. Completely document your process as outlined. Your documentation / report should be approximately 2 pages of relevant detail that would allow a user to rebuild your design / configuration from scratch.

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Technologies:

AWS: EC2 (Linux VM Instance) + EBS (Persistent Disk) + Elastic IP ("Static" IP for Instance)

Intended Services to Provision:

Linux Server (alternately a Windows Server)

Web Server (nginx, Apache, or IIS)

Static IP

Design:

Your goal is to document the process of setting up a server (on EC2) running nginx (or Apache, IIS) with a static IP on AWS (using the technologies mentioned above).

Important Note:

At this stage in the course we are beginning to architect, configure, and deploy real services in the public cloud (specifically AWS). When you are beginning designing and deploying services, documentation can be of great help as replicating exact configurations can at times be challenging. Note: When we do not replicate a configuration exactly, we can be creating security issues (assuming we had a “secure” or robust design initially). Another reason to develop good documentation is that it gives a good idea of what should be happening with systems and it can be reviewed and refined over time so that the quality of your designs and configurations increases as you practice.

Questions to Answer:   

What is the purpose of EBS?

Does EBS persist after you delete a VM instance?

Can you reuse an EBS in a new VM instance?

What purpose does an Elastic IP serve?

How could an Elastic IP help you cope with upgrades?

As an organization grows, what are some aspects to consider with regard to EC2 Instances, EBS, and Elastic IPs if any (i.e. aspects to consider: architectural, performance, cost, etc.)?

Documentation:

[Include your documentation below]

Deliverable(s):

Use this document as a base and include your ideas here. Submit and upload to Canvas in the assignment area for this project.  

Remember that the better the quality of your documentation, the greater the likelihood that you can reproduce a configuration for deploying a production system or rebuilding your production infrastructure after a disaster.

*** Note: Be sure to utilize Free Tier eligible or a low cost option of your choice. After your workload has been designed, deployed, tested, and documented, be sure to delete, decommission instances so as to not be continually charged for services.

Answer 1

What is the purpose of EBS?

EBS is Elastic Block Store System . The EBS is used to store the persistent data.

Amazon EBS is suitable for the EC2 instances by providing highly available block level storage volumes .

EBS has 3 types of volumes . they are :

i) General Purpose (SSD)

ii)Provisioned IOPS (SSD)

iii)Magnetic Volumes

Does EBS persist after you delete a VM instance?

If any VM instance is terminated or deleted the data on any instance associated with in that instance will be deleted. But by default if any EBS volumes that you attach or any EBS volumes that you attach to an existing instance persist even after the instance terminates .

This is controlled by volume's DeleteOnTermination.

Can you reuse an EBS in a new VM instance?

Yes , we can reuse the EBS in a new VM instance .

Depending on the instance type and volume we can Multi-Attach to use a volume to many instances at a time.

What purpose does an Elastic IP serve?

The Elastic IP is an IPv4 address . It is used for dynamic cloud computing .

With the help of an Elastic IP we can easily find the failure of an instance or software by rapidly remapping the address to another instance in your account .

How could an Elastic IP help you cope with upgrades?

We can quickly remap an Elastic IP address from one instance to another to work around problems with your instance or software.

Elastic IP will in accessing our instance through internet .

We can assign custom tags to your Elastic IP addresses to categorize them in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment. This helps you to quickly find a specific Elastic IP address based on the custom tags that you assigned to it.

As an organization grows, what are some aspects to consider with regard to EC2 Instances, EBS, and Elastic IPs if any (i.e. aspects to consider: architectural, performance, cost, etc.)?

If an organisation is growing then EC2 instances is very usefull in terms of software and hardware products.

The cost is a major aspect to look into it .

As an organisation is growing it requires huge amount of hardware devices with better features

Generally we need a very good device for working on designing projects and better experience ,which will let a huge amount an the organisation.

But EC2 instances provides the power fro desiging , where the user just a basic device to work .

AWS also helps the people in the organisation to work remotely .

It help the organisation to reduce the cost .