BrianKevinMidterm

By Brian Fox and Kevin Johnson

Overview of Site

Our site is a made-up tour guide business for UConn. The site includes some facts about UConn and the information about what our business offers to potential students.

Site Links

EC2 / AutoScale Group with a Load Balancer

• EC2 Instance Public IPv4: http://3.91.68.233
  • EC2 Autoscaling Servers:
    • http://54.227.153.80
    • http://3.82.196.34
    • http://18.208.170.149

S3 and Cloudfront

• d1hse2k6jej3kc.cloudfront.net

Pros and Cons of S3 and Cloudfront

Pros:

• S3 Allows you to store huge amounts of data and customers will pay for how much storage they use

  • Highly scalable at low costs

• 99.99% availability

  • No need to worry about downtimes or being unable to access data

• Fast retrieval of data

  • Cloudfront utlizes edge locations to decrease the distance between viewers and where the data is stored

Cons

• Prices can increase quickly if there is high traffic to your website

• High speeds are not always necessary

Pros and Cons of EC2 with Autoscaling and Load Balancing

Pros:

• Optimally routes traffic

  • Reduces loads on each individual instance

• Highly Flexible -Can designate a minimum or maximum number of servers to be running to ensure maximum site uptime

• Can choose which operating system you use

• Can utilize spot bidding

  • Reduce costs by bidding for instances that are not currently in use by AWS

Cons:

• Can be difficult to estimate number of instances required

• Vast number of options can be confusing for beginners