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

[Tony White]

You might want to google "amazon web service outage"

Here from Amazon was educational
Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East
Region http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/

There are regions and zones. if I recall correctly, zones seem to be in the
same data center (the docs are somewhat opaque on this), so you might want
to take that into consideration in your risk management strategy.

Good luck.

All the best,


Tony White
Tony White Designs, Inc.
Tel: 718-797-4175
tony_white at twdesigns.com
http://www.twdesigns.com


On 6/4/12 6:29 PM, "Jonathan Schwartz" <jschwartz at exit445.com> wrote:

> 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