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Research Portfolio and Justification of Cloud Based Design Artefact

This document outlines the requirements for a coursework assignment on researching and justifying a cloud-based design artefact. Students must complete a 2000-word research portfolio addressing how cloud adoption affects organizations and how cloud services can enhance infrastructure. They must also produce a 1000-word documentation and 15-minute presentation justifying a cloud-based design for a fictional Sri Lankan company called BookingSL that is looking to move its infrastructure to the AWS cloud platform to address current issues like downtime and scalability limitations. The goal is for students to evaluate how AWS could improve the company's business performance and IT operations.

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Research Portfolio and Justification of Cloud Based Design Artefact

This document outlines the requirements for a coursework assignment on researching and justifying a cloud-based design artefact. Students must complete a 2000-word research portfolio addressing how cloud adoption affects organizations and how cloud services can enhance infrastructure. They must also produce a 1000-word documentation and 15-minute presentation justifying a cloud-based design for a fictional Sri Lankan company called BookingSL that is looking to move its infrastructure to the AWS cloud platform to address current issues like downtime and scalability limitations. The goal is for students to evaluate how AWS could improve the company's business performance and IT operations.

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ASSIGNMENT:

Research Portfolio and Justification of Cloud Based Design Artefact

1. Overview

This document forms the specification for your coursework in this module. This
coursework will address and assess Learning Outcomes 1 to 4 as indicated in the Module
Descriptor. These are also shown below.
1. Research and evaluate issues which affects cloud adoption within an
organization.
Analysis and Enquiry
2. Investigate and critically evaluate how cloud services can be used to
enhance an organizations infrastructure.
Learning
Analysis, Enquiry and Knowledge & Understanding
Outcome
3. Implement a cloud based infrastructure for a given scenario which
s
will aid a SME to improve its business performance
Application
4. Critically evaluate new approaches in cloud services and evaluate the
benefits and the risks for within a commercial environment
Problem Solving, Enquiry, Reflection and Communication

2. Specific Requirements

2.1 This coursework is weighted at 100% of the overall module mark and there is no other
coursework that you are required to complete for this module.

Assignment point 1 is a research portfolio (2000 words) weighted at 30% addressing


Learning Outcomes 1 and 2.
Assignment point 2 is a justification of cloud based design artefact for an enterprise design
is weighted at 70% addressing Learning Outcome 3 and 4.
Assignment point 2 will be evaluated through a documentation (1000 words) and a
presentation (15 minutes).

2.2 The assessment should be targeting an established company in Sri Lanka which is currently
hoping to continue expanding its IT infrastructure to the cloud.

To help this process, the company senior management has decided to,
(1) hire an expert in the area of cloud digital transformation.
(2) leverage AWS as the key cloud platform while experimenting its new offerings.
This assessment assumes that you are the expert that the company is going to hire to build
their next generation cloud IT infrastructure.

2.3 If an element of the assessment is not clear then please speak to your lecturer.

2.4 The documents should be in accordance with the sections 3 and 4.

2.5 You must use Harvard referencing.

2.6 A plus or minus 10% variation on the word count will be accepted.

2.7 This coursework should be completed and submitted as an individual piece of work. In
other words, it is not group work. You should be aware of the rules on academic
misconduct. These rules are very clear. The Faculty takes a strict line in enforcing them.
It is important that you understand the regulations as the penalties for infringement
can be very serious including: module failure; grade point zero; downgrading your
degree classification; award failure; expulsion from the University.

3. Assessment Requirements/ Deliverables

3.1 A sample Case study: BookingSL (Pvt) Ltd

Company Background
BookingSL is a Sri Lankan one-stop booking web site, which was launched in 2000 to
cater many booking domains in Sri Lanka such as hotels, events, working spaces, air
tickets, movie tickets, etc. Since its inception, the booking site has gone through many IT
infrastructure changes to improve its performance, cost, security, reliability and the day-to-
day operations. Until now, the website has been hosted on the company premises and
running on a small cluster. The application is written on a pure Java platform adhering to
the traditional monolithic architecture patterns. The cluster consists of two Java virtual
server instances, a software load balancer and a MySQL database hosted on the same
server. Being the first booking web site in Sri Lanka, it slowly became popular among
masses though it had many reliability issues in the current architecture. However, due to its
unreliable nature of the application deployment, the company senior management have
been receiving endless complaints from the public. That prompted them to think seriously
to revamp the application from the software and the deployment perspective. Moving to a
cloud environment is one key aspect that they are seriously looking at.

Some of the current IT architectural issues are complexities are listed below:
 The application was developed adhering to a Monolithic architecture. There are multiple
day-to-day downtimes of the whole application, due to this architecture limitation.

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