How to ensure there is a Jaspersoft for AWS server for each Availability zone within a region

Issue description

In regards to general AWS configuration of resources such as TIBCO JasperReports^® Server, it is a common requirement to ensure that there is a capable server for each Availablity zone within a specific region. To this end, it is important to:

1. Share the configuration (repositry) across multiple instances, and
2. Share session information between instances.

Solution with CloudFormation templates

For quite some time we offer a simple solution to this by deploying a Jaspersoft for AWS cluster using one of our pre-configured CloudFormation templates. The templates provide various configuration options (manual or automatic repositroy database setup, with or without Multitenancy, deployment in VPC, hourly and Bring Your Own License deployments etc.) for a number different regions. The complete selection of optoins can be found on the Jaspersoft for AWS Launch page:

• https://community.jaspersoft.com/jaspersoft-aws/launch

When configurting the clustered instance it lets you select multiples Availability Zones for the region:

Solution for deploying from AMI and/or unsupported regions

We do not have a documented solution for configuring ELB and configuring culster for multiple availability zones when Jaspersoft for AWS is not deployed from one of our CloudFormation templates mentioned above. However a good place to start is the following chapter in our AWS documentation:

• https://community.jaspersoft.com/documentation/tibco-jaspersoft-aws-user-guide/v60/launching#installation_726256148_1034399

Also you might want to go over the steps suggested by one of our engineers in this thread:

• https://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/847594/aws-elb