Cloud Computing

CASE STUDY 2: CLOUD COMPUTING

CIS 500

08/21/2012

Dr. Ave K. Kludze, Jr

1. Assess how Ericsson benefitted from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in terms of cost reduction, automated software updates, remote access, and on-demand availability.

Over a span of several years, Amazon.com has progressively positioned itself as a competitive technology company through a series of services referred to as Amazon Web Services (AWS).   These are services in which Amazon rents out parts of its back-end infrastructure to other IT organizations and developers (New York Times, 2010) since 90% of it was being unused.   They offer a number of benefits such as cost-effectiveness, dependability, flexibility, and comprehension.   The competitive AWS products in which Amazon emphasized were Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).  

Ericsson was able to instantly take advantage of Amazon’s resources. Amazon’s AWS is able to build and manage a global infrastructure to the scale Ericsson needed to support their business. This infrastructure already brings Cost-effectiveness to Ericsson due to “No up-front payments, No long-term contracts. Customers pay only for actual usage of services with help of their credit card (Pay as you go).” They had the ability to deploy new applications and automated software updates instantly because they were able to scale up and down as demand changed or the business required it. They could access their cloud from anywhere thanks to the freedom of remote access. It can supply millions of transactions per minute. A lot of commodity hardware that can pick up in case of some technical failures on the other hardware. (always-on and self-healing infrastructure) The web services provided Ericsson with a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform with data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan. “The Ericsson team states that having hosting...