KBriscoe BSACB 531 Competency 1 Assesment AWS Evaluation Report

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1 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Evaluation Report University of Phoenix IT Architecture In The Age Of Cloud/ BSACB/531 Competency 1 Will Wilson 3/7/2023 Grade: MA

2 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Evaluation Report Global Technology Retailers (GTR) is actively evaluating the enterprise infrastructure architecture to decide on cost-effective solutions for the on-premises data centers. Currently, the data centers must be close to the retail stores with connectivity to servers in each retail location. After reviewing the rising cost of replacing outdated servers and ongoing maintenance, the executive team wants to evaluate solutions to reduce costs and eliminate the overhead of multiple data centers. The executive team considered Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the most viable option. Before implementing AWS as the enterprise solution, the team wants to understand the advantages, disadvantages, benefits, ongoing costs, and design options that best fit the company’s growth. Rationalization for Cloud Computing GTR has looked at the five-year escalating cost of IT infrastructure and wants to understand how cloud computing can contribute to cost reduction. Cloud computing offers many advantages over servicing physical data centers. Cloud computing is defined as infrastructure-as- a-service (IaaS). IaaS offers users the possibility of rapidly deploying virtualized resources across the Internet. Cloud computing eliminates the burden of retrofitting, maintaining, and replacing physical servers. A cloud platform offers diverse solutions and configurations that can meet the needs of GTR. After surveying the IT infrastructure, we have identified the top five benefits of moving the current infrastructure to the cloud: 1. Elasticity provides economic solutions by managing capacity according to processing requirements.

3 2. Scalability can respond to application utilization requests by increasing the resources available to help prevent latency. 3. High Availability provides 99.9% uptime by using availability zones to ensure resources are continuously provided by the Cloud Service Provider without disruption of activity. 4. Global accessibility means that cloud computing is available in all five countries where retail stores operate. 5. Security and compliance are needed to comply with international regulatory standards and data privacy and protection. While the top five advantages and opportunities of moving infrastructure to the cloud, there are other factors to consider. A survey of our application portfolio is necessary to decide the type of cloud deployment and design consideration that will work with any legacy applications, data storage, and local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) infrastructure to handle a cloud-based solution. Resilient Architecture The architecture and design will enable the cloud infrastructure to be on a global level. Shifting IT infrastructure to the cloud is driven by cost savings, with a forward-looking forecast allowing retail services to extend to more customers across the US and more countries. Designing and deploying a resilient architect design must meet the demands of the growing online retail presence, to support the warehouse and retail inventory supply chain, and the retail in-store applications, such as financial transactions. Building and designing a resilient cloud architecture depends on ensuring cloud systems have high availability, fault-tolerance, and the ability to recover quickly from disruptions or

4 failures. The goal of resilient cloud architecture is to ensure that critical systems and services have high availability to users, even in the event of hardware failures, software bugs, or other unexpected events. The resilient cloud architecture can involve the hardware, such as storage, and the applications that are built in the cloud. In addition to the hardware and applications that leverage cloud technologies, network design must be taken into consideration. Many cloud service providers have zones where the data centers are located. For example, suppose the zone selected for our cloud implementation is not available due to a power outage or network failure. In that case, it will automatically switch to an available operating zone and our applications will continue to function. It will be seamless for the end users. Other key considerations in designing and building a resilient cloud architecture are redundancy, automatic failover, load balancing, monitoring and alerting, and high availability. These design factors help with ensuring continuous and seamless delivery. Redundancy and automatic failover incorporate the use of multiple servers and network connections. The failure of one of the critical components will switch to a functioning component without human intervention. To support optimal performance, load balancing helps to distribute workloads across multiple instances. Unlike a traditional on-premises data center where limited resources are available and can cause significant latency, support teams can identify resource utilization and make the proper adjustments through monitoring and alerting. Detecting potential failures or high resource utilization prevents service disruptions and helps keep all systems in operation. High availability is a vital business need. Data replicates across multiple zones. Users working in different states or different countries will have access to the data. Because of

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