What you'll learn

IT teams often run applications on single EC2 instances, which leads to manual scaling, downtime during failures, and constant firefighting. In this course, AWS Elastic Compute Operations, you’ll gain the ability to build, validate, and troubleshoot resilient EC2-based applications designed for production environments. First, you’ll explore how to configure EC2 Auto Scaling groups, launch templates, Application Load Balancers, and health checks to create a highly available and dynamically scaling workload. Next, you’ll discover how to validate scaling behavior, troubleshoot unhealthy instances, resolve failed launches, and diagnose common networking and configuration issues. Finally, you’ll learn how to evaluate when EC2 is the right compute choice for a workload by understanding its strengths, limitations, and how it compares with alternative AWS compute services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS on Fargate, and Amazon EKS. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the practical skills and operational knowledge needed to manage scalable EC2 workloads, verify application resilience, and make informed AWS compute decisions.