Reliability
Does Scout PD offer global availability?
Yes. AWS global coverage spans 69 Availability Zones within 22 geographic Regions (region map here), and 191 points of presence through the edge network.
What other regions can Scout PD be deployed to besides AWS GovCloud and AWS Commercial (US) regions?
Scout PD can be deployed in the following ten (10) international regions as-of April 2022:
Canada (Montreal)
Brazil (Sao Paulo)
Europe (London)
Europe (Dublin)
Europe (Frankfurt)
India (Mumbai)
Australia (Sydney)
Singapore
Korea (Seoul)
Japan (Tokyo)
Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and Africa (Cape Town) are all pending and should be available later in 2022
Does Scout PD offer high availability?
Our architecture design handles automatically scaling up (larger compute), as well as scaling out (more instances), so that the system is always the ‘right’ size for your workloads and delivers consistent high performance.
Most often the system scales out with more instances, distributing the workload among them, to reduce the impact of a single point of failure.
Monitoring metrics, and using automated recovery processes, ensures reliability for operational consistency.
Does Scout PD run on modern development principles?
Yes, we use Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) to build, commit, pipeline, and deploy the containers and microservices that, in aggregate, are the application.
Scout PD claims it is built on “the best cloud” - how can I verify this?
We encourage you to do your homework.
Consider that AWS’s cloud revenue is double Azure’s, and their most recent [quarterly revenue] dollar gain is still larger than the number 2-5 [rivals] combined.
Or look at the independent research firms that analyze data from the major cloud providers to detail statistics like this:
“Based on the vendors own reported numbers, from the beginning of 2018 through May 3, 2019, AWS leads the pack with only 338 hours of downtime, followed by GCP closely at 361. Microsoft Azure has a whopping total of 1,934 hours of self-reported downtime.”
Also see this June 2019 Gartner report where AWS scored #1 in 7-of-8 categories.
Consider that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has adopted AWS over 5 years ago and FBI CJIS is running its production workload on AWS GovCloud.
What other government agencies run on AWS?
Back in 2017, the company announced the new AWS Secret Region with which AWS becomes the first and only commercial cloud provider to offer regions to serve government workloads across the full range of data classifications. Currently, over 5,000 government agencies use AWS.
