Amazon E2 Task 3 Paper

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For Amazon EC2 Access Management, Compliance Monitoring, Detailed Invoices. For Microsoft Azure FedRAMP, HIPAA Compliant, ISO 27001 Certified, Network. (MICROSOFT, 2014)

Task 2
Case Studies
Spotify on AWS
Spotify is an online music service offering instant access to over 16 million licensed songs. The application is available for Windows and Mac OS operating systems, as well as multiple mobile device platforms. Spotify users can choose between a free, ad-supported version and a monthly subscription that allows users to enjoy music without ads on a wide range of mobile devices. Both options allow users to enjoy instant access to one of the world’s biggest music libraries, and to enjoy, discover and share music on a number of different …show more content…

Within each Amazon VPC, the company uses 20 to 40 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances running in a high-availability cluster with an Active-Active failover configuration across two Availability Zones. Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes traffic across the Amazon EC2 instances to ensure no single instance is overused. Amazon Route 53 manages public-facing domain name services records and ensures the services backing them are operating properly.
Benefits
By running its system within the AWS Cloud, EROAD has been able to align its costs closely to revenue. “We certainly would have struggled to manage three data centers globally from New Zealand with the very small team we’ve got here,” says Clayton. “Based on the organization’s modelling, running co-located equipment in two data centers in the United States and Australia would be at least two-and-a-half times more expensive than deploying it in the AWS Cloud. We can enter a new market or country in minutes, depending on legislative requirements,” says Clayton.
AWS also enables EROAD to deliver page loading times of about 1.2 seconds across its entire system and support thousands of vehicle location updates per second. The cloud also supports responses to each update such as checking whether the vehicle is subject to a road user charge or tax, or needs a