I have been working on some new projects since leaving my last job about 6 months ago. One is to build an entire infrastructure that is highly available and redundant. With Amazon Web Services this is a snap and almost makes my job obsolete. With EC2, S3, EBS, and CloudFront you can build a scalable solution with dependable backups with ease. My goal now is to also use AWS to create an intranet for the company. I have not found much on this topic so I ma taking the time to document it here. My ideas so far:
- Use Fedora Directory Server as main LDAP solution. This can be used with EBS (Elastic Block Storage) with striped volumes to store the LDAP data. Along with having redundant multi-master replication geographically depending on where the EC2 instance is set.
- Subversion server using EBS for storage. Using EC2 for something along the lines of SVN is a good use since it speeds up performance. Along with having the backup ability of EBS and EBS Snapshots
- Twiki as documentation for intranet.
- SugarCRM for customer relationship management which will include project management and bug tracking.
- S3 for backing up users data automatically. This is helpful since it is a telecommuting company. Using a tool like JungleDisk or similar.
- The DEV and Staging environments will also be on AWS with same Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) as the production environment.
That is all I have so far I will update as the project comes along.
