Designing Scalable and Fault-tolerant Systems within AWS
This course will teach you how to design and implement scalable and resilient cloud based systems.
What you'll learn
Shifting to the public cloud presents several different scenarios that need to be accounted for. Resiliency is a key fundamental of cloud architectures and a critical component of the Well-Architected Framework. In this course, Designing Scalable and Fault-tolerant Systems within AWS, you’ll learn to architect fault-tolerant and scalable systems within AWS. First, you’ll explore how to design stateless architectures. Next, you’ll discover how to implement auto-scaling and load balancing within your applications. Finally, you’ll learn how to utilize AWS networking and content delivery services to meet your requirements. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of creating scalable and resilient applications needed to implement a successful application within AWS.
Table of contents
- Course Intro 2m
- Stateless Versus Stateful Architectures 3m
- AWS Lambda Review and Demo Overview 3m
- Using Lambda Functions within a Stateless Architecture 6m
- Looking at On-demand, Reserved, and Spot Instances 2m
- Creating Spot and On-demand EC2 Instances 4m
- Reserved Instance Purchase Process 4m
- Module Review 2m
- Module Intro 1m
- Auto Scaling Group Overview 3m
- Automating Tasks Using EC2 User Data 6m
- Creating an Auto Scaling Group with Launch Configs 9m
- Creating Auto Scaling Groups with Launch Templates 7m
- Creating an Application Load Balancer with a HTTP Listener 10m
- Application Load Balancers Continued - Working with TLS/SSL 6m
- Creating Network Load Balancers 6m
- Module Review 1m
- Module Intro 1m
- Recapping CloudFront Concepts 5m
- Creating a CloudFront Distribution - S3 Origin Part 1 12m
- Creating a CloudFront Distribution - S3 Origin Part 2 3m
- Creating a CloudFront Distribution - ALB Origin 4m
- Miscellaneous Important CloudFront Information 2m
- Utilizing Route 53 Health Checks and Routing Policies 11m
- Route 53 Resolvers and Traffic Flow Policies 4m
- Module Review 1m
- Course Review and Next Steps 3m
About the author
Andru is an experienced architect and engineer who has had many years of hands on experience with numerous cloud and virtualization technologies. Learning the newest technologies is what really drives him, and it is icing on the cake that he has the ability to teach others how to use what he has learned. Teaching the skill sets he has acquired can have lasting impacts on students, and that to him is amazing.