Question

Upon the completion of this assignment, you should be able to compile a cloud architecture drawing using the hypothetical scenario below.

Hypothetical Scenario

Coastal Biotech is a San Diego company that currently leases data center space in a colocation facility in Kearney Mesa and has ten physical servers for its diagnostic test analysis business. The company is experiencing tremendous growth in business due to COVID-19 testing and needs to quickly expand its capacity 10x. Your CIO would like you to create a cloud architecture drawing that highlights the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) services necessary in order to meet the company's growing diagnostic testing needs. You do not need to worry about the actual biological material testing aspects of the company's business, so you should be focusing on the underlying IT infrastructure. The CIO has prepared the following technology requirements to help guide you:

• 2 Terabytes of object storage to start and a plan to scale up and down with business needs
• 2 Virtual Machines for Databases per Region
• Container infrastructure that scales up and down with testing needs
• Container management that is simple enough to be managed with the existing five person IT organization
• Health data needs to be secured
• All credentials need to be centrally managed and secured
• The infrastructure needs to be deployed into two U.S. regions for business continuity purposes

  Instructions

  You will create a cloud architecture drawing using some sort of diagramming software (LucidChart is recommended if you plan to use GCP and AWS. CloudCraft is recommended if you plan to only use AWS.) and compile a brief narrative that meets the requirements below:

  • MS Word or PDF document
  • 12-point font
  • Single-spaced
  • You must include your cloud architecture drawing
  • Minimum of 250 words
  • Organized using an Introduction, Reflection, and Conclusion style
  • Your reflection will be a discussion of your progress as you complete the homework, including describing any challenges, how you overcame any challenges, and what you learned on this assignment.
• NO OTHER INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED

Answer 1

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92123 San Diego
California, USA

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KIO Networks supports the global IT community with private, customizable cloud services and data centers in the U.S, Mexico, greater Latin America and Europe. KIO enables its clients to focus resources on what drives their competitive advantage - not the distractions of owning and managing IT.

Level 3 San Diego 2

Level 3 Communications
8923 Complex Drive
92123 San Diego
California, USA

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For all information regarding Products and Services for Level 3 Communications go to www.level3.com

Cogent San Diego 1

Cogent Communications, Inc.
525 B Street
92101 San Diego
California, USA

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Cogent's downtown San Diego Data Center. More information is available under the full description.

NFINIT Tech Center

NFINIT
9725 Scranton Road
92121 San Diego
California, USA

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NFINIT's Scranton Data Tech Center (SDTC) is located in the area San Diego, USA (America), and the colocation data center is carrier neutral.

KIO Networks - World Trade Drive

KIO Networks USA
12270 World Trade Drive, Suite 100
92128 San Diego
California, USA

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KIO Networks supports the global IT community with private, customizable cloud services and data centers in the U.S, Mexico, greater Latin America and Europe. KIO enables its clients to focus resources on what drives their competitive advantage - not the distractions of owning and managing IT.

EdgeConneX San Diego - EDCSDG01

EdgeConneX
5761 Copley Dr Suite 150
92111 San Diego
California, USA

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EdgeConneX San Diego Edge Data Center - Space, Power & Connectivity. Where you ASK for it.

ScaleMatrix

ScaleMatrix
5775 Kearny Villa Rd
92123 San Diego
California, USA

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Colocation, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Data Center Services, High Density Hosting, San Diego Colocation

NFINIT Lightwave San Diego (LWDC)

NFINIT
9305 Lightwave Ave
92123 San Diego
California, USA

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NFINIT operates seven data center footprints in California and Arizona. NFINIT Lightwave Data Center (LWDC) is an 80,000 square-foot purpose built internet data center (IDC) located in the San Diego Spectrum area of Clairemont Mesa.

Cogent San Diego 2

Cogent Communications, Inc.
9530 Towne Centre Drive
92121 San Diego
California, USA

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Cogent's San Diego Data Center offers over 8500 square feet of raised floor data center space.

CARI.net

CARI.net
8929 Complex Drive
92123 Kearney Mesa
California, USA

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CARI.net specializes in providing flexible colocation services so you can focus on growing your business.

SimpleNet Colo

SimpleNet, Inc.
225 Broadway
92101 San Diego
California, USA

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The SimpleNet Data Center is a world-class facility located in Down Town San Diego. Our facility meets the high security and protection demands of any Internet presence with redundant systems for connectivity, electrical power, air conditioning and fire suppression to ensure 5-9's availability.

tw telecom San Diego

tw telecom
7888 Ostrow Street
92111 San Diego
California, USA

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San Diego based collocation facility. UPS and back up generator.

Level 3 San Diego 1

Level 3 Communications
8929 Aero Drive
92123 San Diego
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