Instructions
Applied Supercomputing Users (ASU) Inc. is at a cross-roads as an
organization, their physical infrastructure is getting close to the end
of its life and they have ever-growing capacity needs. The Chief
Technology Officer (CTO) has determined that he wants ASU Inc. to
leverage AWS for their infrastructure and phase out their physical
infrastructure.
Your role in this project is as a technology consultant that ASU Inc.
has hired in order to create a proof of concept that cloud technology
will be a viable replacement from the aspects of both computing and
cost. The following deliverables are have been requested by the CTO:
Cloud Migration Justification
The first deliverable will be a 600-800 word justification for the
migration to the cloud from ASU Inc’s physical infrastructure. In your
justification, you will need to cover the final concepts:
An overview of the one year and three year costs of AWS for the following resources:
20 database (Microsoft SQL) Windows servers with 64GB of RAM and 4 CPU cores each (to replace their database cluster)
200 non-database Linux servers with 8GB of RAM and 2 CPU cores each (To replace their current server farm)
25 TB of S3 storage (For application storage)
10 TB of EBS storage (For OS storage)
Make sure to include a screenshot of the “calculations page” of the AWS.calculator EC2 cost report
An explanation for how ASU Inc. can minimize its costs when using the AWS platform
Some examples may include Reserved Instances, Instance Sizing, different types of storage and compute!
An explanation of the process for migrating ASU Inc. from an internal infrastructure to AWS
This will require some research! There are a lot of great
resources available on the internet for this and the textbook goes into
it as well. You have flexibility here, the same kind of flexibility and
adaptability is required when performing this type of task!
Deliverables
Submit the justification as a Word of PDF file named Final Project Justification – Lastname and Final Project POC – Lastname. Your deliverable must use APAv7 format and use 5 references, one of which must be from this courses Kale textbook.
