[FX.php List] Amazon Elastic Load Balancing implementation?

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Hi Folks,

I just wanted to check with the experts before replying back to a 
client about their inquiry.

A client is running  a couple of FMS 12 servers at Amazon Web 
Services (AWS) for Web Publishing. To accommodate spikes in web 
publishing demands, a suggestion has been made to employ Amazon 
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to dynamically adjust the number of 
server instances that are available to provide web services.  In 
theory, this would spawn additional clones of a FileMaker Web 
Publishing environment on an as-needed basis.

While this might work in a pure html environment or even a MySQL 
environment, I don't see how this would work in a FileMaker Server 
environment.  At the very least, it would seem to violate FMS 
licensing.

I could not find any discussions on the net.  Any advise from this group?

Thanks

Jonathan
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