You are the project lead hired to develop the IT systems aspects of a Online based multinational sales corporation. Discuss some environmental issues that are specific to the Web-design of your system that you must consider if your system is to be successful at expanding by attracting and increasing the number of purchasing customers. (Hint: look at SaaS, IaaS vs. proprietary systems).

Please provide 2 - 4 paragraphs bullets on how COST and EFFECFIENCY could impact a web design in a Cloud evironment.

Cost solutions:

Effeciency concerns:

Notes from class:

It's a cloud environment

So you could say... it's saves money due to no hvac

U can scale down systems during off hours

U scan scale up systems when needed

You don't need to pay for a coop site. And yet you can have one up quicker then if you had a warm or cold coop site

Horizontal scaling means you add servers. Vertical scaling means you up the resources on a server

Horizontal tends to be the better option

You can use software as a service.

So rather than having a sql server. You can just be provided the service and amazon handles the servery things

That saves cost

It basically allows you to cut costs while increasing efficiencies in a flexible manner