Cloud Computing

Case Study 2: Cloud Computing 

Cloud Computing

Hani Kaassamani

Strayer University

Loudoun Campus

Prof. Prem Jadhwani

Abstract

Ericsson was able to notice and benefit from Amazon’s advantages. Amazon’s AWS is able to construct and manage a worldwide infrastructure to the scale Ericsson required to support their business. With this infrastructure already in place, it delivers a cost savings value. They had the aptitude to set up new applications and automated software updates promptly because they were able to scale up and down as demand changed or the business required it (AWS Ericsson , 2012). They are able to access their cloud from wherever they want thanks to the sovereignty of remote access. Ericsson was able to attain an extremely dependable, scalable, inexpensive infrastructure platform with what the web services had to offer via the data center sites in the U.S., Europe and other parts of the world (AWS Ericsson , 2012). Ericsson chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) because they felt it was the most cohesive public cloud supplier in the “Rightscale Cloud Management Platform” (Rightscale, 2012). The Ericsson team mentions that “having hosting centers in various regions was important for them. AWS also showed a better quality of service with solid management and a proven track record.” (Amazon Web Services, 2012).

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud provides a fully structured environment, memory, a processor, and out of the box configured software. It provides great quality within minutes on a “pay-as-you-go” (Amazon EC2, 2012). Moreover, it decreases the time required to gain and boot new server illustrations to minutes, permitting you to rapidly measure the size, whether it goes up and down as your computing necessities change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by permitting you to pay only for space that you actually use. Amazon EC2 offers developers the necessary tools to build failure resistant applications and insulate...