This project was developed for a Systems Architectures and Distributed Systems (ASSB) assignment during my fourth year of undergraduate studies. The main objective was to deploy a functional web service in a cloud environment using AWS services, keeping within the limits of the free plan.
This web service consisted of a load balancer that distributed requests between two EC2 instances, each with its own Apache server and web page.
The main tasks performed included:
- Controlling and creating cost alerts: Setting up alerts in AWS to ensure that all operations conformed to the free plan, avoiding unwanted additional charges.
- Deployment of EC2 instances: Raise two instances of EC2 and connect to them via SSH. On each of the instances, install the Apache web server.
- Configuring web servers: Configuring the Apache services on both instances to serve a static web page I created myself.
- Deployment of a load balancer: Deployment of a load balancer on AWS, which distributes incoming requests evenly between the two Apache servers, optimising the load and ensuring higher availability.