Introduction

Your Migration of the on-prem services to the cloud is not possible right now, so a multi-part solution will be needed. You have been tasked to generate a high-level design document on how to achieve this at the lowest possible cost.

Situation

Your company currently runs their website in AWS, as described in previous lab reports. In addition to the servers you have interacted with, assume there are several databases and other large storage servers in AWS to facilitate the voting application. In addition to these AWS services, your company has a number of VMs (running on VMware ESX) in a co-location data center near the company headquarters. These VMs run equipment, such as file servers for word/Excel documents, the email system, internal accounting systems, and other business-specific applications. While there are backups to a local tape drive, nothing else is done to protect the data.

Technical Write-Up

As the IT ADMINISTRATOR of your company, Prepare a report describing how you will protect both the on-premise and AWS data in the event of a disaster. Your company has an on-premise data center, as well as a few applications that run entirely in AWS. Recently, the CEO of your company heard of a company that was forced to go bankrupt due to the failure of a data center. She wants to ensure that your company is protected in the event of a loss of data center services, either the on-premise or cloud-based ones.

You should attempt to minimize costs, as your company is not willing to spend a great deal of money on this initiative, as they feel the odds of needing it are small. Outline how you will protect the data, how a disaster would be handled, and how services will be restored in the event a disaster occurs. The audience of this paper will be the executive committee of the company, so they have some, but not a great deal, of IT knowledge.