New England College Week 4 Amazon EC2 Instance Savings Plans Instances Discussion

Week 4 Homework

Contoso Corp has decided that they would like to move their existing Hyper-V on-premise application servers to the cloud service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS). You are responsible for proposing a plan to the CIO to accomplish this task. Your proposal should address the following areas.

What tools does AWS provide to help facilitate this move?

Calculate the AWS utilization cost assuming three servers with the following specifications using the AWS calculator https://calculator.aws/#/createCalculator

Windows Server with SQL Server Enterprise

8 vCPUs per server

64 GiB of memory per server

Discuss the pros and cons of moving the virtual servers to AWS. Ensure that you research and uncover some of the advantages as well as risks involved with the migration

Your essay should be 2-3 pages in length (not including cover and reference page) and should include at least two scholarly references and no less than four references total. Your paper must be in APA format.

**You will need to conduct independent research to fully address all aspects of this paper