Tip 2 Cloud

You have recently joined a startup company building sensors to measure street noise and air quality in urban areas.The company has been running a pilot deployment of around 100 sensors for 3 months each sensor uploads 1KB of sensor data every minute to a backend hosted on AWS.During the pilot, you measured a peak or 10 IOPS on the database, and you stored an average of 3GB of sensor data per month in the database.The current deployment consists of a load-balanced auto scaled Ingestion layer using EC2 instances and a PostgreSQL RDS database with 500GB standard storage.The pilot is considered a success and your CEO has managed to get the attention or some potential investors.The business plan requires a deployment of at least 100K sensors which needs to be supported by the backend.You also need to store sensor data for at least two years to be able to compare year over yearImprovements.To secure funding, you have to make sure that the platform meets these requirements and leaves room for further scaling.Which setup win meet the requirements?Read More →

Accompany runs an application on Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda.The application stores temporary data in Amazon S3.The S3 objects are deleted after 24 hours.The company deploys new versions of the application by launching AWS CloudFormation stacks.The stacks create the required resources.After validating a new version, the company deletes the old stack.The deletion of an old development stack recently failed.A solutions architect needs to resolve this issue without major architecture changes.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →