Grouper Developers Forum

[Jim Fox <>]

I've been experimenting with an instance of our group service in the Amazon 
cloud.  Thus far:

 Aurora DB: postgres compatible database

  - db.r4.large instance.  This the entry level, but larger than our present 
in-house db host.

 EC2 app server

  - ubuntu-18, tomcat-8, openjdk-11, apache-2.4
  - t3.large instance.  Similar to what we use now.

 As yet this is the Grouper API with our front-end.  If I have time I'll try 
the Grouper UI as well.
 The only problem I encountered is that javax.xml.bind is no longer provided 
by the JDK (as of version 10 or 11).  And as far as I can determine, older 
versions of the JDK are soon to be unavailable, unsupported, or expensive.  
Fortunately, the necessary jaxb jars are on maven.

 It works well, and seems to be quite a bit faster than our production system.

 Monthly cost is mostly the DB, around $140 for each instance: one master DB 
and however many read DBs we'd use.  Don't actually know how that compares 
with what we spend now. I'll note that the Aurora DB is nearly effortless to 
put together and comes with a lot of tools.

Jim