>>Hi,
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>>I am setting up a site in Amazon Web Services to sell our VFP application as SAAS following on the footsteps of several developers that I met at South West Fox.
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>>It is not a web site but an arrangement in the cloud to run a VFP app in virtual machines to which users connect to using remote desktop.
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>>This is what we are setting up:
>>- A VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) to tie it all together
>>- An EFS (Elastic File System) as file server
>>- An Active Directory to control user rights
>>- A number of EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances in which our customers will run our application
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>>We also plan to install a Remote Desktop Connection gateway so users can be given a single IP address to connect to our site, followed by a load balancer that will assign an available EC2 instance to the user.
>>Naturally we also need to provide good security, fail over arrangements and good backups.
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>>There are *many* things that need to be setup and configured but it isn't a completely foreign process. I'm sharing the experience in case it may help someone else.
>>
>>Alex
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>Hi Alex,
>
>Thank you for sharing this information. I have been thinking about the same approach of selling my software as a service via a Server in the cloud. But never actually got to "doing it". If you don't mind a couple of questions:
>1. What company do you use for setting up a server in the cloud? I understand it is not Amazon but not clear which is it.
>2. What are the rough costs of setting up this server?
>
>Thank you, again.

Hi Dmitri,

After talking to a couple of VFP developers who have set up in AWS I am setting it up myself. I want to gain the knowledge and would gladly hire a coach.

Lets keep in touch and help each other

Alex