Competency

Contrast methodologies for the design and deployment of cloud applications.

Scenario

You are the cloud architect for an online furniture company. The entire business model of the company is online sales. The following are critical to the company:

• The web application must run 24/7.
• Proper disaster recovery must be in place so, if one site is down, traffic will automatically be diverted to another site.
• The web application must have the proper load balancing so that customers will get quick responses.

In addition, the web application uses disk storage for the log files. This disk storage often gets full and causes downtime for the end customers.

Your manager has asked you to prepare a PowerPoint presentation for the leadership team to get the required funding for an improvement project. The project will help your company to convert the storage into the elastic storage.

Instructions

Create a PowerPoint with the following information:

Slide 1: Overview

Slide 2: Select a public cloud and identify elastic storage in which to store the log files.

Slide 3: List the benefits of using elastic storage.

Slide 4: Design architecture with built-in disaster recovery and fault tolerance.

Slides 5- 6: Describe the components that will be useful in completing the DR and fault tolerance approach on a public cloud.

Slide 7: Describe the importance of load balancing.

Slide 8: Describe different types of load balancing options.

Slide 9: Select the appropriate load balancing option and give the reasoning behind your selection.

Slide 10: Prepare a public cloud design/architecture diagram with Elastic Storage, Load Balancing, and DR solutions. You can use any tool to create the architecture diagram, then take a screenshot and insert it into the slide 10.

Slide 11: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources.

Resources

REQUIREMENT TO PASS (RUBRIC)

 The presentation contains 11 slides. 

 Full, robust, and detailed overview of the project. 

 Public cloud selected. A full, robust, and detailed description of elastic storage in which to store the log files. 

 A full, robust, and detailed explanation of the benefits of using elastic storage. 

 Full, robust, and detailed architecture design provided including disaster recovery and fault tolerance. 

 A full, robust, and detailed description of the components that will be useful in completing the DR and fault tolerance approach on a public cloud. 

 A full, robust, and detailed description of the importance of load balancing.

 A full, robust, and detailed description of different types of load balancing options. 

 Load balancing app selected; full, robust, and detailed reasons given for the selection. 

 A screenshot provided and all of the components (elastic storage, load balancing, or DR solution) are included. 

 5 scholarly references provided; documented correctly.