This week we got our AWS credits so we are ready to start initial deployment and connectivity tests for the following week. In preparation for said tests, I watched some tutorial videos and read some articles regarding multi-tier server deployment on AWS. In particular, I found this technology suite regarding AWS article insightful: https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/ . Virtual private cloud would allow for various high level tasks such as creating and integrating new nodes as well as tiers for said nodes; this would effectively give us centralized control and some preliminary monitoring for our overall server architecture.
I also did some further research on our possible database implementation. AWS offers specialized node instances for database storage and our naive solution (for the MVP) is to have several nodes that each store our full database archive. We plan to make the video catalogs on the databases all read-only during active deployment as we find this will make any distributed system more straightforward to implement. We will consider a more dynamic database solution if this leads to storage overruns during later testing.
I also created a shared document for the design report imported our presentation content to act as a starting template. We will continue to work on this report for the upcoming week.