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Aug

2011

Posted by Sean Hull on Mon 01 Aug 2011 20:37 UTC
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High Availability, cloud computing, Disaster Recovery, CTO/CIO, infrastructure design, Cloud Migrations, infrastructure deployments, avoiding ec2 outages, business continuity, fault tolerant infrastructure, infrastructure development, mitigating ec2 outages, reliability engineering, resilient deployments, resilient enterprise, resilient infrastructure, resilient services

1. Backup outside of the Cloud

Some of the high profile companies affected by Amazon's April 2011 outage could have recovered had they kept a backup of their entire site outside of the cloud. With any hosting provider, managed traditional data center or cloud provider, alternate backups are always a good idea. A MySQL logical backup and/or incremental backup can be copied regularly offsite or to an alternate cloud provider. That's real insurance!

2. Use alternate regions and availability zones

Amazon's outage in April …

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Jul

2011

3 Ways to Boost Cloud Scalability

Posted by Sean Hull on Sat 30 Jul 2011 19:16 UTC
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MySQL Cluster, scalability, cloud computing, aws, Amazon EC2, cloud infrastructure, auto-scaling, capacity planning, MySQL Scalability, Web Operations, CTO/CIO, Cloud Migrations, Database Operations, horizontal scalability, infrastructure deployments, vertical scalability, infrastructure development, mysql high availability, amazon ec2 scalability, aws scalability, capacity planning and scalability, cloud infrastructure scalability, cloud scalability, EBS performance, infrastructure as a service, infrastructure as code, mult-az deployments, mysql active passive cluster, mysql community server, mysql master-master, mysql on ec2, mysql percona server, raid 0, raid 0 ebs, rds scalability, scalability in the cloud, striped ebs

Deploying in the Amazon cloud is touted as a great way to achieve high scalability while paying only for the computing power you use. How do you get the best scalability from the technology?

1. Use Auto-scaling

Auto-scaling is a unique feature of cloud computing and Amazon's EC2 offering. Setup a load balancer and a couple of webservers for your application as you normally would. Design your webserver based on a template AMI that you'll reuse over and over. Then setup auto-scaling and set thresholds based on the traffic you forecast. When a threshold is passed, AWS will spinup a new instance of your webserver, and roll it into the load balancer pool automatically. Once traffic falls below the scale back threshold, Amazon will take a server out of the pool for you.

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