[Cialug] Cloud Providers

[L. V. Lammert]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, tony welder wrote:

> Howdy Lammert,
>
Howdy!

> While I don't exactly know what your client's needs are, here's a few
> things to consider about AWS.
>
Have looked at it before, .. but it's way too complicated for a normal web
site.

Right now, we're trying to get setup at ChicagoVPS (as mentioned here)
with a dedicated server (pretty reasonable), but their support is proving
to be less than idea. Hopefully it will improve!

> The good:
> If your customer wants a dev->test->prod, AWS has tools for code
> repository("codecommit") and code deployment ("codedeploy")
> One can easily configure auto-scaling with cloudwatch based on the core
> four.
>
More like test & pro, .. but that's fairly simple to do with a repo. Don't
think anything more spohisticated is worth the effort.

> If the E-commerce website needs to life cycle data out to tape.  This can
> be done automatically through S3 and glacier.
> If one needs a hot site, Amazon has got you covered.
> If you want insanely fast turnaround on DR, this can be done
> through cloudformation and S3.
>
Cool - will keep that in mind!

> If you're going the route of an MSP and they're paying you for the
> servers... then you can do something really sexy with consolidated
> billing.  Let's say some of your customers want some on demand instances
> (not always on boxes).  You can pay for one reserved instance (not turned
> on) inside of your consolidated billing account.  Then when your customers
> turn on those instances and pay you, you pocket the 33 percent difference
> assuming collectively across all of your customers, there's 100 percent up
> time of a particular instance type.  Kinda complicated but super sexy if
> you're in the MSP world.
>
No kdding!!!

	Mahalo!

	Lee