README.md

# 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