Ben Bernays bernays
This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
| /*Problem: Integration into 3rd party API requires IP whitelisting. Servers are dynamically started and stopped. | |
| Solution: assign predefined EIPs to EC2 instances as the Auto Scaling group size increases | |
| Limitations: Need to predefine and preallocate all IP addresses | |
| Other possible solutions: | |
| 1) Proxy all requests through single NAT instance | |
| i. limitation: single point of failure | |
| ii. need similar solution to make sure NAT is highly available | |
| 2) Remove whitelisting requirement | |
| i. no...just no ... not gonna happen |