Grid computing is gaining prominence and there are several well-established, robust commercial applications in place leveraging the wide range of technologies that are undergoing massive functionality upgrades such as processors, hard drives and RAM. The Web services-based applications that reside within these computing clouds provide secure, scalable, cost effective, and reliable environments for a wide range of business units to house their IT infrastructure.
To prepare for this group project, research the Internet for information on Grid computing. The following Web sites may be helpful in your search:
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/grid/whatsnew/index.html
https://www.globus.org/
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment has been considered one to be of the most successful and well-respected environments of its kind within the global community.
https://aws.amazon.com/
Using either the following AWS applications or others of your choosing, examine how 5 applications can be used within an IT application framework.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2™)
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3™)
- Amazon CloudFront™
- Amazon SimpleDB™
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS™)
Explain how security is ensured. In APA Style and make sure to include In text citation