8K Miles' Response to RFP - NCPA

• Cost-Effective – Amazon CloudFront passes on the benefits of Amazon’s scale to you.
You pay only for the content that you deliver through the network, without minimum
commitments or up-front fees. This applies for any type of content that you deliver –
static, dynamic, streaming media, or a web application with any combination of these.
• Elastic – With Amazon CloudFront, you don’t need to worry about maintaining
expensive web-server capacity to meet the demand from potential traffic spikes for your
content. The service automatically responds as demand increases or decreases without
any intervention from you. Amazon CloudFront also uses multiple layers of caching at
each edge location and collapses simultaneous requests for the same object before
contacting your origin server. These optimizations further help reduce the need to scale
your origin infrastructure as your website becomes more popular.
• Reliable –Amazon CloudFront is built using Amazon’s highly reliable infrastructure.
The distributed nature of edge locations used by Amazon CloudFront automatically
routes end users to the closest available location as required by network conditions.
Origin requests from the edge locations to AWS origin servers (e.g., Amazon EC2,
Amazon S3, etc.) are carried over network paths that Amazon constantly monitors and
optimizes for both availability and performance.
• Global – Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of edge locations, located near
Region 14 and NCPA members in the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America.
AWS offers a range of database services as defined in the following sections. 8KMiles is
experienced in engineering and implementing each of these services.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set
up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable
capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing the NCPA
member to focus on their applications and business.
Amazon RDS gives Region 14 and NCPA members access to the capabilities of a familiar
MySQL, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server database engine. This means that the code,
applications, and tools a customer already uses today with their existing databases can be used
with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up the
customer’s database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling pointin-time
recovery. Region 14 and NCPA members benefit from the flexibility of being able to
scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with their Database Instance (DB
Instance) via a single API call.
Amazon RDS DB Instances can be provisioned with either standard storage or Provisioned IOPS
storage. Amazon RDS Provisioned IOPS is a storage option designed to deliver fast, predictable,
and consistent I/O performance, and is optimized for I/O-intensive, transactional (OLTP)
database workloads.
In addition, Amazon RDS makes it easy to use replication to enhance availability and reliability
for production workloads. Using the Multi-AZ deployment option, Region 14 and NCPA