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Automation, Scalability and Elasticity

Case Study: Newvem Supports DoubleVerify AWS Cloud Deployment

DoubleVerify is the pioneer in online media verification and the only provider of dual verification technology.

The company utilizes the Amazon cloud to meet their high demand and offer critical online processes. The services are deployed mainly on AWS US East and EU (Ireland) regions. The company’s online services utilize hundreds of EC2 computing instances and hundreds of terabytes stored on S3 simple storage.

How to Enable CloudWatch Detailed Monitoring

Presentation: AWS EC2 and the Elastic Beanstalk

This presentation brougt to you by Jeff Barr, Senior Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. If you are new on AWS elastic compute cloud, this presentation includes some important basics on AWS EC2 includes a nice classification of  the different instances types (by EC2 compute units and memory).It also includes what’s EC2 security group, Elastic IP,  Elastic load balancer(ELB), CloudWatch, EBS and Auto-scalinng.

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This presentation will help you to get started with AWS EC2. Supported by the first part supports, the second part of the presentation elaborates on AWS Beanstalk  - put all the EC2 components together under the same roof. The third and last part  of the presentation details how to to use AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Git-based deployment of a PHP application.

Related posts: Automating Maven Project Deployments on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Keywords: Amazon web services, Amazon AWS console, Amazon AWS instances, EC2 Service, Amazon cloud computing, EC2 EBS, AWS elastic IP, CloudWatch, AWS Management Console, Elastic Load Balancer, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Platform, Availability zones

 

Infographic Demystifying Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) dominates cloud computing, commanding 60% of the $2 billion public cloud marketplace. Here we demystify what goes on behind the scenes of AWS usage and show you how you can lower costs and increase availability with Newvem’s KnowYourCloud Analytics.

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Expert Guide: How-to Automate an EBS Volume Snapshot

We use EBS volumes for persistent storage. To ensure we do not lose data and take backup regularly, AWS provides mechanism to take snapshot. Learn more on how to snapshot an EBS volume. In this guide, we will show, how to automate snapshots for an AWS EBS volume by schedule an automatic cron job. We will use Linux instance and see how to automate the snapshot using cronjobs.

How-to Sync Data Between AWS S3 Storage and (Elastic Block Store) EBS

S3Sync is a tool written in Ruby to synchronize system folders (EBS) and S3 buckets. In this guide we will shown you how to sync your EBS data with S3 bucket and vice versa.

We will run an EBS-backed Linux instance and sync data between our instance and S3 bucket.

To execute the S3Sync from your instance, you need Ruby (version 1.8.7 or above ) installed in your local machine. If you are running a Windows instance, download and install Ruby from   http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/  for a Windows local machine.

Automating Maven Project Deployments on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Maven on BeanstalkThis tutorial will show you how to use the ingenieux Beanstalker Maven Plugin to automate deployment of Maven Projects into Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. Apache Maven is a project management tool popular for Java Projects. Based on the concepts of Inversion of Control (IoC) and Convention over Configuration (CoC), it lets developers evolve project functionalities and behaviors with minimal effort, by storing the project metadata in a standard file format, the Project Object Model (POM), in a headless fashion, but compatible with all the major IDEs.

Infographic: Demystifying Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the biggest public cloud around, yet what goes on behind the scenes remains a mystery. For heavy users, such as enterprise level CIOs, AWS’s “Reserved Instances” are a cost effective model to scale their cloud activity and benefit from the full service offering that Amazon provides. The infographic is based on analysis made by our Reserved Instance Decision Making Tool. This advanced analytics tool can help enterprise CIOs to capture the added value and benefit by:

  • Ensuring that reserved instances meet cost and performance expectations.
  • Identifying consistent onOn-demand Demand usage that can be shifted to reserved Reserved instances.
  • Tracking Reserved Instance expiration dates and recommend actions for renewal and scale up and down.

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Building a Scalable WordPress Setup on AWS

Scalable WordPress setup on AWSWordPress is one of the most popular open source blog platforms out there. It is used to power anything from simple blogs to complex portals, thanks to the variety of plugins the community has developed.

In this article we will describe the architecture options for deploying WordPress in AWS with scalability and high availability in mind. We will take advantage of the elasticity of the cloud and use more servers when we need them and less when we don’t (auto-scaling).

How to Create or Delete an AWS Cloud EBS Volume Snapshot

EBS Snapshot costs feature imageThe Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) offers persistent storage for Amazon EC2 instances through the EBS volumes. For more durability, Amazon EBS also provides the ability to create point-in-time consistent snapshots of the volumes, which are then stored in Amazon S3, and automatically replicated across multiple Availability Zones.

The present guide demonstrates how to create or delete an EBS Snapshot.

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