SIOS Technology Corp., an industry leader in application
high availability and disaster recovery, announced the release of a new
eBook,
Step-by-Step: Configuring Amazon EC2 for Business-Critical
Applications.
The eBook is written by Dave Bermingham,
Director of Customer Success at SIOS. He is recognized within the technology
community as a high-availability expert and has been honored to be elected a
Microsoft MVP for the past 12 years: 6 years as a Cluster MVP and 6 years as a
Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP. Dave holds numerous technical
certifications and has more than thirty years of IT experience, including in
finance, healthcare, and education.
Step-by-Step: Configuring Amazon EC2 for
Business-Critical Applications examines
what users need to do to prepare the AWS EC2 infrastructure to support
business-critical applications clustered with Windows Server Failover
Clustering (WSFC).
AWS guarantees that if two or more
instances are deployed in different availability zones (AZs), at least one of
those instances will have external connectivity. The SLA does not guarantee
that the application or service running inside the instance will be available.
It only guarantees the availability of the instance itself. To address
availability of the application, users will need to take additional steps to
monitor the application and recover it should a failure occur. In the case of
transactional replications like SQL Server and other relational database
management systems (RDMS), users also have to ensure the data is replicated and
available across each AZ. Depending on the application, this additional layer
of application monitoring and replication will be accomplished by a combination
of one or more of the following: load balancing, clustering and/or data
replication.
In this eBook, Dave describes in great
detail what is needed to prepare the EC2 infrastructure to support business-critical
applications clustered with Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC). As learned in the SLA, in order
to qualify for the 99.99 percent availability, instances must be deployed
across multiple AZs. Readers will learn how to design EC2 infrastructure to
support cross-AZ failover clustering.
To download a copy of Step-by-Step:
Configuring Amazon EC2 for Business-Critical Applications, please visit here.