Cloud Computing

Assess how Ericsson benefitted from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in terms of cost reduction, automated software updates, remote access, and on-demand availability. Ericsson benefitted from AWS in cost reduction, in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services — now commonly known as cloud computing. One of the key benefits of cloud computing is the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business.

With the Cloud, businesses no longer need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly spin up hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deliver results faster. Seven reasons customers are saving money with AWS: 1. They assist customers in replacing up-front capital expense with low variable cost. 2. The provision of massive economies of scale and efficiency improvements allow them to continually lower prices.

3. Multiple pricing models allow customers to optimize costs for both variable and stable workloads. . Cloud computing drives down IT labor costs both up-front and on an on-going basis. 5. AWS delivers a premium security spec at non-premium prices. 6. AWS allows customer workloads to be highly available for a fraction of the cost (PER *Ericsson article) AWS creates a venue whereby customers can expect updates, access and availability to be on-time everytime . The Amazon Web Services has established a way to put a global infrastructure in the hands of even the smallest consumer, Ericsson has maximized on this capability and discovered excellence.

Examine the security concerns for cloud-based services and make suggestions to cope with these concerns. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 is a US government security standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules protecting sensitive information. To support customers with FIPS 140-2 requirements, the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud VPN endpoints and SSL-terminating load balancers in AWS GovCloud (US) operate using FIPS 140-2 validated hardware.

AWS works with AWS GovCloud (US) customers to provide the information they need to help manage compliance when using the AWS GovCloud (US) environment. The flexibility and customer control that the AWS platform provides permits the deployment of solutions that meet industry-specific compliance requirements. HIPAA ’s Security and Privacy Rules provides the security controls customers can use to help to secure electronic health records. AWS has completed the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire.

This questionnaire published by the CSA provides a way to reference and document what security controls exist in AWS’s Infrastructure as a Service offerings. The questionnaire (CAIQ) provides a set of over 140 questions a cloud consumer and cloud auditor may wish to ask of a cloud provider. Evaluate the scalability, dependability, manageability, and adaptability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Services (Amazon S3), and RightScale. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use.

Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios. Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, secure, fast, inexpensive infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites.

The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers. (aws. amazon. com) RightScale cloud management enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business-critical applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds. RightScale provides efficient configuration, monitoring, automation, and governance of cloud computing infrastructure and applications. (www. rightscale. com) Assess possible scalability, reliability, and cost issues associated with cloud computing, and make suggestions to overcome each of these issues.

Scalability issues related to the cloud are the risk that the cloud provider won’t be able to grow with the companies business. The best way to avoid this is to research the scope, depth amd reach of any cloud computing company you decide to go with. Reliability issues that could occur are the risks of the systems actually data encrypting your data and being able to trust that no one else will be able to access your data. The computing companies back up protocol is key to their reliability to the customer. Cost Issues related to cloud computing are that the above two (scalability and reliability