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Amazon Web Services: Migrating your .NET Enterprise Application

By : Rob Linton
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Amazon Web Services: Migrating your .NET Enterprise Application

By: Rob Linton

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform in the Cloud, which businesses can take advantage of as their needs demand. The Amazon Cloud provides the enterprise with the flexibility to choose whichever solution is required to solve specific problems, ultimately reducing costs by only paying for what you use. While enterprises understand moving their applications among infrastructure they own and manage, the differences in Amazon's infrastructure bring up specific business, legal, technical, and regulatory issues to get to grips with. This step-by-step guide to moving your Enterprise .NET application to Amazon covers not only the concept, technical design, and strategy, but also enlightens readers about the business strategy and in-depth implementation details involved in moving an application to Amazon. You'll discover how to map your requirements against the Amazon Cloud, as well as secure and enhance your application with AWS. This book helps readers achieve their goal of migrating a .NET Enterprise Application to the AWS cloud. It guides you through the process one step at a time with a sample enterprise application migration. After comparing the existing application with the newly migrated version, it then moves on to explain how to make the hosted application better. It covers how to leverage some of the scalability and redundancy built into the Cloud, and along the way you'll learn about all of the major AWS products like EC2, S3, and EBS.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Amazon Web Services: Migrating your .NET Enterprise Application
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up the networking for our sample application


Now that we are clear as to how Amazon does networking, let's look at how we can apply that to our sample application:

The database layer

As you can see, in this layer we have a domain controller managing two SQL Server database instances. The domain controller in our sample application is a standalone domain controller and is not part of an enterprise domain. The reason we have a domain controller is purely to manage the security for the two SQL Server instances, as SQL Server is poor at managing security outside a domain:

So in this case, we have two servers, which need to be part of a domain, and as we saw earlier in this chapter, when servers in AWS need to be part of a domain they must have Elastic IP addresses added.

So the first thing to do is to add an elastic IP address to both the SQL Server EC2 instances as well as the Domain controller instance.

In this example, the IP addresses are:

Server Name

Elastic IP Address

Domain Controller...