Notes

Blueprints to build?

• Single public host
• One-AZ VPC with ELB, app, and data tiers
• Multi-AZ VPC with ELB, app, app+n, and data tiers
• Queue that spins up spot instances on demand to do data processing and return a result
• Single S3 bucket
• Public RDS instance
• Puppet master to manage other instances (including client management with cert signing)

Legacy patterns to port?

• simple-s3
• rds
• vpc-two-tier
• bees-with-machine-guns
• multi-hosts

Templates/macros to build

VPC

• Choose 1, 2, or 3 AZ
  • How many public networks (and IP ranges)?
  • How many private networks (and IP ranges)?
    • Which private networks should have NAT?
    • Which NAT instance and size to use? (find with Boto?)
• Optional bastion host
  • Allowed source ports and IP ranges

ELB