Showing posts with label Public Cloud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public Cloud. Show all posts

Friday 21 September 2012

Pros and Cons of Public Cloud

Benefits and Limitations of investing in a Public Cloud

 

Pros and Cons of Public Cloud

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Tuesday 18 September 2012

Amazon VPC - New Additions

 
AWS has added 3 new features / options to the  Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service.
 
 
PFB extract for the two blogs written by Jeff on the same:
 
 
The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) gives you the power to create a private, isolated section of the AWS Cloud. You have full control of network addressing. Each of your VPCs can include subnets (with access control lists), route tables, and gateways to your existing network and to the Internet.
 
You can connect your VPC to the Internet via an Internet Gateway and enjoy all the flexibility of Amazon EC2 with the added benefits of Amazon VPC. You can also setup an IPsec VPN connection to your VPC, extending your corporate data center into the AWS Cloud. Today we are adding two options to give you additional VPN connection flexibility:
  1. You can now create Hardware VPN connections to your VPC using static routing. This means that you can establish connectivity using VPN devices that do not support BGP such as Cisco ASA and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. You can also use Linux to establish a Hardware VPN connection to your VPC. In fact, any IPSec VPN implementation should work.
  2. You can now configure automatic propagation of routes from your VPN and Direct Connect links (gateways) to your VPC's routing tables. This will make your life easier as you won’t need to create static route entries in your VPC route table for your VPN connections. For instance, if you’re using dynamically routed (BGP) VPN connections, your BGP route advertisements from your home network can be automatically propagated into your VPC routing table.
If your VPN hardware is capable of supporting BGP, this is still the preferred way to go as BGP performs a robust liveness check on the IPSec tunnel. Each VPN connection uses two tunnels for redundancy; BGP simplifies the failover procedure that is invoked when one VPN tunnel goes down.

Sunday 2 September 2012

Thursday 31 May 2012

AWS - Migrate Linux AMI (EBS) using CloudyScripts


In a typical Amazon Web Services(AWS) Environment, Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are strictly available in a certain region only. These AMIs cannot be moved from one region to another. Though the AMIs are shared within different Availability Zones of the same region.

For this purpose, you can use a third party tool called as CloudyScripts.

CloudyScripts is a collection of tools to help you programming Infrastructure Clouds.

The web-based tool is self explanatory and regularly updated. In case you find any bug, do not hesitate to email the owners right away.


Goto the CloudyScripts Copy AMI to different region tool
































cloud computing: Simple Workflow Service - Amazon Adding One Enterp...

cloud computing: Simple Workflow Service - Amazon Adding One Enterp...:

Amazon has announced a new orchestration service called Simple Workflow Service . I would encourage you to read the announcement  on Werner's blog where he explains the need, rationale, and architecture.

Wednesday 30 May 2012

AWS EBS-Backed Instance Backup &Restore

Starting with the 2009-10-31 API, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a new type of Amazon Machine Image(AMI) that stores its root device as an Amazon Elastic Block Store(EBS) volume. They refer to these AMIs as Amazon EBS-backed. When an instance of this type of AMI launches, an Amazon EBS volume is created from the associated snapshot, and that volume becomes the root device. You can create an AMI that uses an Amazon EBS volume as its root device with Windows or Linux/UNIX operating systems.

These instances can be easily backed-up. You can modify the original instance to suit your particular needs and then save it as an EBS-backed AMI. Hence, if in future you need the the modified version of instance, you can simply launch multiple new instances from the backed-up AMI and are ready to-go.

Following are the steps to be performed for backup/restoring of AWS EBS instance into/from an AWS AMI. Also brief steps for deletion of AMI backup are noted for reference


EBS-instance to EBS-backed AMI

  • Go to AWS Management Console and in the My Instances Pane, select the instance which has to be backed up.
  • Right click the instance and select option Create Image (EBS AMI).

  • In the Create Image dialog box, give proper AMI Name and Description. Click on Create This Image button.
 

  • The image creation will be in progress. This will take sometime depending upon the number & size of volumes attached to the instance. Click on View pending image link. It will take you to the AMIs pane.

  • The AMI will be in pending state. It is important to note that this AMI is private to the account and not available for AWS public use.
 
  • If you select Snapshots from the Navigation Pane, then you can see that EBS volumes attached to the instance will be backed up as too.

  • Once the backup is done, the AMI will be in available state.
 


Restore from backup AMI into instance


In case, the running instance needs to be restored, use the latest backup AMI. To launch an instance from this AMI, right-click the AMI and select Launch Instance option. The Launch Instance Wizard will be displayed, perform the usual configurations and a new instance will be created containing all the data & configurations done before backup.


Delete AMI & Snapshots:

  • To delete any AMI, Right-click it and select De-register AMI.

  • Remember, deleting AMI doesn’t delete the EBS volume snapshots. Click on Snapshots from Navigation pane, search & select the snapshot(s) to be deleted. Right-click on the snapshot(s) and select delete snapshot option.
 


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Friday 25 May 2012

Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS.

Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how