How Effective is IP Takeover at Amazon EC2?
Amazon is building a innovative cloud computing web hosting platform with their Electric Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The newly broadcasted elastic IP mark radically enlarges the possibilities of EC2 as a true hosting environment. For standard website needs, the current implementation web hosting emerges appropriate, but for projects that need high-availability, there is at least one considerable limitation. We imagine a load-balanced cluster completely web hosting within EC2. The front-end of this setup would be administered by two small EC2 instances web hosting that would efficiently serve as load-balancers or routers. Requests would appear at the main router and would be afterward aimed at to the least loaded web hosting instance within the cluster. While a single router serves as a single point of breakdown, at least one additional router is needed for a truly extremely existing system. A monitor could repeatedly ping the main router and if there are any troubles, the minor router
24 April 2008: Amazon is building a revolutionary cloud computing platform with their Electric Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The recently announced elastic IP feature dramatically expands the possibilities of EC2 as a true hosting environment. For standard website requirements, the current implementation appears suitable, but for projects that require high-availability, there is at least one significant limitation. We envision a load-balanced cluster wholly within EC2. The front-end of this setup would be managed by two small EC2 instances that would effectively serve as load-balancers or routers. Requests would arrive at the primary router and would be subsequently directed to the least loaded instance within the cluster. Since a single router serves as a single point of failure, at least one additional router is required for a truly highly available system. A monitor could regularly ping the primary router and if there are any problems, the secondary router should reassign the IP addr
