Cloud Computing Basics – Achieving High Availability


Introduction

High availability simply means that the service you are delivering to your customers is “up” most of the time. Availability is measured as a percentage of uptime versus downtime. Most attempts at achieving high availability from an infrastructure perspective is done by introducing redundancy, component redundancy. This means having multiple “copies” of the components that are put together to realize the service.

High Availability for Legacy Architecture Patterns

In the typical layered architecture pattern, this would mean two or more web servers behind a load balancer, two or more application servers, and a clustered database. The exact methods used