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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 S3 and Cloudfront Pros and Cons of S3 and Cloudfront Pros: Cons Pros and Cons of EC2 with Autoscaling and Load Balancing Pros: Cons:
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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

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