1. Highly Scalable, Reliable and Cost
Effective Web Architecture Design in
the Cloud.
By
Ghazanfar Latif (Gabe)
gabe@prebinary.com

2. Presentation Outline
 Part 1: Review and Use Case Definition
 Part 2: Amazon Web Services in the Cloud
 Part 3: Definition of the very basic layout of the Web Server
 Part 4: Design Highly Scalable, Reliable and Cost Effective
Web Architecture.
 Part 5: Amazon Web Services Demonstration

3. Review
 DNS Server and Web Switch
 Scalable Web Server System
 Locally Distributed Servers Architecture
 One way/ two way Layer 4 Web Switch
 One way/ two way layer 7 Web Switch

4. Amazon Cloud
 Amazon EC2
 Cloud Servers ranges from Ranges from 1GHz CPU, 613MB RAM to 110GHz
CPU and 68GB RAM. (5 Regions, 3 Zones)
 Amazon S3
 Cloud Storage Service where we can upload up to 5000 TB of Data.
 Amazon VPC
 Virtual Private Cloud within the Cloud Servers or in between Cloud Servers
and our local machines.
 Amazon SES
 Bulk Emails Sending to the clients.
 Amazon Cloud Watch/SNS
 Resources Utilization Monitoring and sending emails or SMS to the
concerned persons.

5. Use Case:
logmeonce.com
Initial Testing: 1000 Users
After 3 Months: 10,000 Users
Within 1 Year: 1 Million Users

6. IP: 222.111.0.1
Web Hosting Server
Website Hosted
Drive 2: Database
Domain Hosting Service Provider (DNS)
http://upm.logmeonce.com
Drive 1: Web Application
Drive 3: Documents
Existing Web Hosting Trends

7. RDS
(Failover)
RDS
(Live)
Availability Zone B
Availability Zone A
Amazon
S3
Cloud
Front
VPC
EBS 3
EBS 2
EBS 1
EC2 Server
Kerberos MIT tools
LogmeOnce App
Apache
X509
PHP
US East Region
Amazon Management Console Security Setting, SNS, Elastic IP
upm.logmeonce.com abc.logmeonce.com
Step 1:

8. RDS (Live)RDS
(Live)
Availability Zone AAvailability Zone A
Amazon S3
Cloud
Front
VPC
EBS 3
EBS 2
EBS 1EC2 Server 1
Kerberos MIT
LogmeOnce
Apache
X509 & PHP
US East Region
Amazon Management Console Security Setting, SNS, Elastic IP
Elastic Load Balancer (Auto Scaling) and Route53
upm.logmeonce.com abc.logmeonce.com
EBS 3
EBS 2
EBS 1EC2 Server 1
Kerberos MIT
LogmeOnce
Apache
X509 & PHP
US West Region
RDS
(Failover)
RDS
(Failover)
Data Replication
VPC
Step 2:

9. RDS (Live)RDS
(Live)
Availability Zone C
Amazon S3
Cloud
Front
VPC
EBS 3
EBS 2
EBS 1EC2 Server 1
Kerberos MIT
LogmeOnce
Apache
X509 & PHP
Amazon Management Console Security Setting, SNS, Elastic IP
Elastic Load Balancer (Auto Scaling) and Route53
upm.logmeonce.com abc.logmeonce.com
EBS 3
EBS 2
EBS 1EC2 Server 1
Kerberos MIT
LogmeOnce
Apache
X509 & PHP
EBS 3
EBS 2
EBS 1EC2 Server 1
Kerberos MIT
LogmeOnce
Apache
X509 & PHP EBS 3
EBS 2
EBS 1EC2 Server 1
Kerberos MIT
LogmeOnce
Apache
X509 & PHP
EU (Ireland) Region
RDS
(Failover)
RDS
(Failover)
Data Replication
Step 3:

10. Route53
Step 4:

11. Hosted Application Work Flow
Amazon
EC2 Server
Amazon EC2 Console
Client System
Internet
Practice 1
Installed EMR
EMR Documents
EMR Database
Sync Service
Practice 2
Installed EMR
EMR Documents
EMR Database
Sync Service
Practice 3
Installed EMR
EMR Documents
EMR Database
Sync Service
Microsoft
Remote App
-EMR Practice 1
-EMR Practice 2
-EMR Practice 3
Active
Directory
User 1
User 2
…..
……
User N
RD Web Access
& Firewall
 RDWeb Pages
 GPO Settings
 Ports Setting
Security Group Setting EC 2 Instance in Running State
SSL Certificate: Secure and Encrypted Data Flow

12. Demonstration
 Amazon Web Services Console Demo

13. References
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
– http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
• What is cloud computing
– http://www.salesforce.com/in/cloudcomputing/
• HIPAA AND EC2
– http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/04/06/whitepaper-hipaa/
– http://www.ehrdoctors.com/hippa-and-ec2/
• Windows Azure (cloud services operating system)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/windowsazure/
• Google App Engine
– http://code.google.com/appengine/business/
• Amazon EC2 Pricing Strategy
– http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
– http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
• Amazon CloudFront
– http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
• Hosted EMR
– demo.mtbc.com