If you had a chance to read my getting started with Ec2 article I
highlighted some of the challenges with deploying applications on the
cloud. One of these challenges can now be easily overcome based on a
new feature recently provided on Ec2
Elastic IP Addresses:
Elastic IP Addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud
computing, and now make it easy to host web sites, web services and
other online applications in Amazon EC2. Elastic IP addresses are
associated with your AWS account, not with your instances, and can be
programmatically mapped to any of your instances. This allows you to
easily recover from instance and other failures while presenting your
users with a static IP address.
Availability Zones:
Availability Zones give you the ability to easily and inexpensively
operate a highly available internet application. Each Amazon EC2
Availability Zone is a distinct location that is engineered to be
insulated from failures in other Availability Zones. Previously, only
very large companies had the scale to be able to distribute an
application across multiple locations, but now it is as easy as
changing a parameter in an API call. You can choose to run your
application across multiple Availability Zones to be prepared for
unexpected events such as power failures or network connectivity
issues, or you can place instances in the same Availability Zone to
take advantage of free data transfer and the lowest latency
communication.
Every new addition makes Ec2 more attractive. In the coming months I
will be experimenting more with deploying a large scale application to
the cloud and will post some of my findings.
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