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Cloud Resilience Patterns

Cloud workloads must endure expected component failures. This course will teach you how to select and apply core cloud resilience patterns like multi-zone redundancy, queue-based decoupling, and elastic capacity management.

Advanced
1h 9m

Created by Kevin James

Last Updated Aug 10, 2026

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Cloud Resilience Patterns

Cloud workloads must endure expected component failures. This course will teach you how to select and apply core cloud resilience patterns like multi-zone redundancy, queue-based decoupling, and elastic capacity management.

Advanced
1h 9m

Created by Kevin James

Last Updated Aug 10, 2026

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What you'll learn

Cloud systems frequently suffer from cascading outages, component failures, and resource saturation when underlying dependencies degrade or fail. In this course, Cloud Resilience Patterns, you'll gain the ability to select and implement cloud resilience patterns to keep workloads functioning through expected failures. First, you'll explore redundancy patterns, including multi-zone deployments, health-based replacement, and stateless architectures. Next, you'll discover decoupling patterns such as queues, retries with backoff, circuit breakers, and bulkheads, to reduce failure propagation. Finally, you'll learn how to evaluate capacity and traffic patterns using elastic scaling, rate limiting, and load shedding to maintain workload stability. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of cloud resilience patterns needed to select and implement cloud resilience patterns to keep workloads functioning through expected failures.

Cloud Resilience Patterns
Advanced
1h 9m
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Kevin James - Pluralsight course - Cloud Resilience Patterns
Kevin James
25 courses 4.1 author rating 44 ratings

As a seasoned technologist with over 30 years of wide-ranging expertise in information technology roles across diverse industries, Kevin is passionate about finding effective and economical solutions to business problems. His passion for teaching technical subjects allows him to have a particular style that imparts information yet teaches at the same time. He enjoys working with Linux, Unix and Windows Operating Systems and combined with a deep knowledge of software platforms as varied as Apache, MySQL, and others, has enabled him to successfully manage and maintain server infrastructures of all sizes, with his largest project encompassing over 800 servers across 4 continents. He believes in leveraging technology as a tool to make lives better and business flow more efficiently.

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