About the Cloud Console

The Strategy Cloud Platform deploys a best-in-class Strategy architecture into your environment. The Strategy Cloud Platform provides three architectures. Team, Department and Enterprise each one increasing in scalability from one user to hundreds of thousands of users. These Architectures are deployed into your AWS or Azure account via the Strategy Cloud Console. This console will deploy a fully configured, production-ready Strategy architecture into your account. It will also manage, monitor and schedule the resources that are deployed.

You have the option to deploy into either a new VPC (the cloud console will create it) or an existing VPC (you specify the appropriate VPC and subnets). The Cloud Console places an orchestration engine inside your account. It communicates with this engine to initiate deployments, monitoring, and management of the Strategy infrastructure.

This orchestration engine is composed of a series of step functions, lambda functions, cloud formation templates, and code deploy scripts that create the infrastructure, wire the components together, configure the Strategy application and test it for proper configuration.

This deployment engine will execute when a user triggers certain actions in the Strategy Cloud Console. If you create an environment in the cloud console, it would trigger the orchestration engine via an API request, passing a payload to the step function, orchestrating a series of lambda functions and cloud formation templates and finally producing a fully configured production-ready Strategy application.

Strategy Application

The Strategy architecture is deployed with a fully configured production-ready Strategy application. The orchestration engine has a robust set of Code Deploy scripts that are executed on the EC2 instances to properly configure the Strategy application. These scripts have been developed and iterated over for years providing you with the most optimized and fully-featured Strategy application configuration possible.

These scripts consist of tens of thousands of lines of code that configure and optimize the Intelligence Server, Web, Mobile, Platform Analytics, Identity, Library, Collaboration, HyperIntelligence, and many more components. Other valuable operations conducted include:

• Certificates are configured out-of-the-box
• JVM and web settings are tuned to the size and type of the deployed EC2 instances
• clustering is automatically managed
• A unified password is generated and applied to all components
• A special cloud landing page is created with quick access Strategy links and configuration panels
• Guacamole is configured to allow users easy web based RDP and SSH access to the machines

For more details about AWS specifically, see KB483966: Strategy Cloud Platform AWS Architecture.