Retail4profit e-commerce and product management solution using Amazon cloud

Retail4profit is expanding business lines and strategy and as an online e-commerce company established ten years ago, the aim of the business is to make profit. The aim of the company is to ensure quality services to its customers. It has grown over the years into a company with a turnover of £50 million.  The company is headquartered in london, where the company was originally founded, with regional offices across the country in different provinces.

They are looking to develop an effective e-commerce and product management solution using amazon cloud to meet the needs of their growing business. As a junior cloud consultant, you have been asked to develop and deploy an effective e-commerce solution for them.

Marks are awarded for producing a properly documented system that meets the requirements as specified below:

In this task, you are to write a comprehensive report critically discussing cloud computing technology and its services:

You are required to write a proposal to the company discussing the different cloud providers (amazon, azure), their services and deployment models for the advancement of the company’s functionalities.

In the report, critically evaluate iam services and create 2 groups (admin, non admin), 2 users and allocate them appropriate group(s) and role(s) for the required personals of the company. You are expected to critically illustrate this with illustrations and images. [10%]

For the enablement of cloud computing technology, the importance of virtual machine cannot be over emphasized. In the report to be sent, you should critically evaluate the amazon ec2 web service's features and create a virtual machine (amazon ami) using admin user in the aws cloud for the company. You should demonstrate how to launch an amazon ec2 instance; configure and select amazon ami; create a new security key pair; connect to instance, among others. 

In this task, you are to critically demonstrate your understanding of amazon relational database service (rds):

Critically evaluate amazon relational database service (rds). In your evaluation, illustrate how to connect to the mysql database using mysql workbench. For example, show how to create a mysql db instance for the given scenario, download a sql client (workbench) and also connect to the mysql database.

In this task, you are to critically demonstrate your understanding of amazon relational database service (rds):

Discuss the following aws storage services and how it can be useful for retail4profit company.

S3

S3 glacier

Aws backup

Critically evaluate amazon website and app services. Deploy web applications of the given case study to cloud environments e.g. Download, install, configure wordpress, php, mysql, apache into ec2 instance to query and manipulate cloud based data structures.

Although your report will make use of an existing body of knowledge, you must write your assignment with your own words to demonstrate your understanding of the subject. You are required to follow the harvard referencing system when citing others' work. An accompanying list of references must also be provided as part of your report. Extensively referenced work reflects the level of research you conducted in the process of producing the document. It is also an acknowledgement of other people’s work. Correct referencing demonstrates your academic and professional skill. It also reflects your academic honesty and thus to some degree protects you from cases of plagiarism.