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Business and Employment 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Amazon and companies using Amazon’s cloud service 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article Reliability 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. The hardware used in this situation is the servers used to host information for companies. Amazon’s cloud model is used by the connecting to the internet network. The Availability Zones are the zones that according to Amazon, are distinct locations that are engineered to prevent failures in other Availability Zones. Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Amazon’s web service that provides companies with infrastructure web service platforms in the cloud. Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) – A web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, designed to make web-scale computer easier for company developers. Amazon’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) service – this service provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon’s EC2 instances. The EBS volumes are off-instance storage that is independent from the life of an instance. http://aws.amazon.com/ 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). A solution to the reliability concern is for businesses and companies to filter out what they plan to put on Amazon’s cloud services, and what to keep in their private network within their control. Balancing the two would beneficial and can prevent a lot of damage that a failure of a server may do the company as well as its files and data stored in the cloud. Amazon explaining how their cloud service actually works and have it backs up everything should be able to calm down businesses, and regain their trust again once everything is back up and running again. || 1.1_reliability_integrity 2.1_online_bus 3.3_network 3.4_internet 3.7_database ||
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 * Apr-11 || Amazon outage spans clouds 'insulated' from each other || 1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to.