Architecting Highly Available Systems on AWS

By Richard Seroter
In this course, we see how to assemble many powerful AWS components into a resilient, highly available web application with no single point of failure.
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jul 31, 2013
Duration
4h 2m
Table of contents
Distributed Systems and AWS
Introduction 1m What are distributed systems? 2m Characteristics of distributed systems 3m Distributed web systems in the cloud 3m Making distributed cloud systems highly available 4m AWS service portfolio 2m Reference solution for this course 2m Reference architecture for this course 1m Goals for this course 2m Resources 1m Summary 3m
Provisioning Durable Storage with EBS and S3
Introduction 1m Where we are in the reference architecture 0m Types of VM storage 2m What type to use in a distributed cloud system? 3m About Amazon EBS 2m Creating and configuring EBS volumes 2m How is EBS failure handled? 2m EBS best practices 3m About Amazon S3 3m Creating and loading S3 buckets 3m DEMO: Creating and loading S3 buckets 7m How is failure handled? 1m S3 best practices 3m Summary 3m
Setting Up Databases in RDS and DynamoDB
Introduction 1m Where we are in the reference architecture 0m The role of databases in distributed cloud systems 3m About Amazon RDS 4m Creating and accessing RDS databases 1m Using RDS with ASP.NET applications 3m DEMO: Creating an RDS database 6m DEMO: Creating an RDS Read Replica 2m DEMO: Pointing to RDS databases from ASP.NET 3m How is Failure Handled? 2m DEMO: Testing RDS failover capabilities 3m RDS best practices 3m About Amazon DynamoDB 3m Creating and using DynamoDB databases 1m Adding a shopping cart to DynamoDB 1m Using DynamoDB as a session state provider 2m DEMO: Using DynamoDB as a session state provider 5m How is failure handled? 0m DynamoDB best practices 2m Summary 2m
Leveraging SQS for Scalable Processing
Introduction 1m Where we are in the reference architecture 1m The role of queues in distributed cloud systems 3m About Amazon SQS 3m Configuring SQS 2m DEMO: Configuring SQS 3m Publishing to, retrieving from a queue 2m DEMO: Publishing to, retrieving from a queue 7m How is failure handled? 1m SQS best practices 3m Summary 2m
Adding EC2 Virtual Machines
Introduction 1m Where we are in the reference architecture 1m The role of virtual machines in a distributed cloud system 2m About Amazon EC2 4m Deploying EC2 servers 2m DEMO: Creating the IAM role 3m DEMO: Creating the servers 5m DEMO: Connecting to servers 2m Accessing shared content 1m Deploying web applications 1m DEMO: Deploying the web application 6m DEMO: Deploying the queue application 3m Creating and using AMIs 1m DEMO: Creating and using AMIs 3m EC2 best practices 3m Using Elastic IPs 2m How is failure handled? 1m DEMO: Using Elastic IPs 3m Elastic IP best practices 3m Summary 2m
Using ELB to Scale Applications
Introduction 1m Where we are in the reference architecture 0m The role of load balancers in a distributed cloud system 2m About Amazon Elastic Load Balancing 3m How is failure handled? 1m Configuring ELB 2m DEMO: Configuring ELB 5m Testing ELB 2m ELB best practices 1m Summary 2m
Enabling Auto Scale to Handle Spikes and Troughs
Introduction 1m Where we are in the reference architecture 0m The role of automated scaling in a distributed cloud system 2m About Auto Scaling 3m How is failure handled? 1m Configuring Auto Scaling 3m DEMO: Configuring Auto Scaling 6m Testing Auto Scaling 1m DEMO: Testing Auto Scaling 2m Auto Scaling Best Practices 2m Summary 2m
Configuring DNS with Route 53
Introduction 1m Where we are in the reference architecture 1m The role of DNS in a distributed cloud system 2m About Route 53 3m Using Route 53 with ELB, CloudFront, S3 1m How is failure handled? 1m Configuring Route 53 2m DEMO: Configuring Route 53 4m Route 53 Best Practices 2m Summary 1m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jul 31, 2013
Duration
4h 2m
Description

This course describes the techniques and best practices for composing highly available distributed systems on the AWS platform. Throughout the course, we build up a web application that takes advantage of AWS storage, databases, compute, messaging, DNS, and more.

About the author
Richard Seroter
About the author

Richard Seroter is the VP of Product Marketing at Pivotal, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also an 11-time Microsoft MVP for cloud, an instructor for Pluralsight, the lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, and author of multiple books. As Vice President at Pivotal, Richard leads product, customer, technical, and partner marketing teams. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

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