The document discusses several strategies and Amazon Web Services that can be used to build fault-tolerant applications, including:
1) Using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to quickly launch replacement instances if one fails
2) Storing persistent data on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes that can be attached to new instances
3) Using Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling to automatically distribute traffic across instances and replace failed instances
4) Leveraging Regions and Availability Zones to distribute an application across multiple distinct geographic locations for redundancy.
This document provides instructions for hosting a static website on AWS using Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront. It describes setting up an AWS account, creating an S3 bucket configured as a website, enabling logging on the bucket, and creating a CloudFront distribution with the S3 bucket as the origin. The steps teach how to deploy a basic static website infrastructure on AWS and provide a low-cost solution for storing and delivering static website content globally using managed AWS services.
This document provides a getting started guide for hosting a web application on AWS using Microsoft Windows. It outlines 14 steps to sign up for AWS services, create the necessary infrastructure including S3 storage, CloudFront distribution, load balancer, EC2 instances, RDS database, and CloudWatch alarms. It then walks through deploying a sample .NET application, creating templates with CloudFormation, and cleaning up resources. The goal is to demonstrate how to build a scalable and robust web application on AWS that can handle varying workloads.
This document provides instructions for deploying a web application on AWS using various services like EC2, RDS, ELB, Auto Scaling, and CloudFormation. It walks through 12 steps - signing up for AWS, installing command line tools, creating an ELB, security groups, key pairs, launching EC2 instances with Auto Scaling, CloudWatch alarms, adding an RDS database, deploying the application, creating a custom AMI, using CloudFormation templates, and clean up. The goal is to have a scalable and robust web application on AWS that can handle changes in traffic.
The document provides an overview of the key AWS services needed to deploy a simple web application on AWS, including:
- Amazon EC2 for running application servers
- Elastic Load Balancing to distribute traffic across EC2 instances
- Auto Scaling to dynamically scale the number of EC2 instances based on demand
- CloudWatch to monitor application and server performance and trigger Auto Scaling if needed
- EBS for persistent storage
- Security groups and key pairs for secure access to EC2 instances
- Availability Zones for high availability across distinct locations
The document then walks through deploying a sample DotNetNuke application using these AWS services.
This document provides an overview of a training on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It includes 5 modules that cover topics such as Introduction to AWS, AWS Storage, AWS Compute and Networking, Managed Services and Databases, and Deployment and Management. The training will describe the fundamental elements of each topic and help attendees learn how to navigate the AWS Management Console, identify AWS storage options, and create Amazon S3 buckets.
The document provides an overview of the AWS Free Usage Tier which gives new AWS accounts free usage of select AWS services for one year. It lists the services included in the free tier like EC2, S3, SES, and others. It provides tips on making the most of the free tier by launching example EC2 instances, deploying web apps, and tracking usage to avoid charges after the free usage expires.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and is often the starting point for your first week using AWS. This session will introduce these concepts, along with the fundamentals of EC2, by employing an agile approach that is made possible by the cloud. Attendees will experience the reality of what a first week on EC2 looks like from the perspective of someone deploying an actual application on EC2. You will follow them as they progress from deploying their entire application from an EC2 AMI on day 1 to more advanced features and patterns available in EC2 by day 5. Throughout the process we will identify cloud best practices that can be applied to your first week on EC2 and beyond.
This document provides instructions for hosting a static website on AWS using Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront. It describes setting up an AWS account, creating an S3 bucket configured as a website, enabling logging on the bucket, and creating a CloudFront distribution with the S3 bucket as the origin. The steps teach how to deploy a basic static website infrastructure on AWS and provide a low-cost solution for storing and delivering static website content globally using managed AWS services.
This document provides a getting started guide for hosting a web application on AWS using Microsoft Windows. It outlines 14 steps to sign up for AWS services, create the necessary infrastructure including S3 storage, CloudFront distribution, load balancer, EC2 instances, RDS database, and CloudWatch alarms. It then walks through deploying a sample .NET application, creating templates with CloudFormation, and cleaning up resources. The goal is to demonstrate how to build a scalable and robust web application on AWS that can handle varying workloads.
This document provides instructions for deploying a web application on AWS using various services like EC2, RDS, ELB, Auto Scaling, and CloudFormation. It walks through 12 steps - signing up for AWS, installing command line tools, creating an ELB, security groups, key pairs, launching EC2 instances with Auto Scaling, CloudWatch alarms, adding an RDS database, deploying the application, creating a custom AMI, using CloudFormation templates, and clean up. The goal is to have a scalable and robust web application on AWS that can handle changes in traffic.
The document provides an overview of the key AWS services needed to deploy a simple web application on AWS, including:
- Amazon EC2 for running application servers
- Elastic Load Balancing to distribute traffic across EC2 instances
- Auto Scaling to dynamically scale the number of EC2 instances based on demand
- CloudWatch to monitor application and server performance and trigger Auto Scaling if needed
- EBS for persistent storage
- Security groups and key pairs for secure access to EC2 instances
- Availability Zones for high availability across distinct locations
The document then walks through deploying a sample DotNetNuke application using these AWS services.
This document provides an overview of a training on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It includes 5 modules that cover topics such as Introduction to AWS, AWS Storage, AWS Compute and Networking, Managed Services and Databases, and Deployment and Management. The training will describe the fundamental elements of each topic and help attendees learn how to navigate the AWS Management Console, identify AWS storage options, and create Amazon S3 buckets.
The document provides an overview of the AWS Free Usage Tier which gives new AWS accounts free usage of select AWS services for one year. It lists the services included in the free tier like EC2, S3, SES, and others. It provides tips on making the most of the free tier by launching example EC2 instances, deploying web apps, and tracking usage to avoid charges after the free usage expires.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and is often the starting point for your first week using AWS. This session will introduce these concepts, along with the fundamentals of EC2, by employing an agile approach that is made possible by the cloud. Attendees will experience the reality of what a first week on EC2 looks like from the perspective of someone deploying an actual application on EC2. You will follow them as they progress from deploying their entire application from an EC2 AMI on day 1 to more advanced features and patterns available in EC2 by day 5. Throughout the process we will identify cloud best practices that can be applied to your first week on EC2 and beyond.
Design for failure and nothing fails. How do you build a system which is designed from the beginning to withstand failure? This session will cover many techniques to develop a system which can remain available during times of disaster and failure. Take advantage of AWS Availability Zones to spread your system across multiple physical locations to isolate yourself from physical and geographical disruptions. Replicate your database and state information to increase availability. Presenter; Brett Hollman, Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services
This document provides tips for optimizing costs when using AWS. It discusses how AWS pricing models allow saving money compared to on-premises infrastructure as usage grows. Specific tips include choosing optimal instance types, using auto-scaling, stopping unused instances, reserving instances to save up to 75%, using spot instances for up to 92% discounts, using appropriate storage classes, offloading tasks from your architecture, leveraging AWS services rather than rebuilding capabilities, and using tools like Trusted Advisor to analyze spending. The goal is to continuously lower costs through economies of scale and passing savings to customers.
The document provides an overview of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and related AWS foundational services:
- EC2 allows users to launch virtual computing environments called instances, choosing between different configurations, operating systems, and pricing models.
- Related services include Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for virtual networking, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) for storage, and support tools like the AWS Management Console.
- The document discusses EC2 instance types, Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), networking, security, pricing options, and how to launch and manage instances.
The document provides answers to interview questions about AWS. It discusses what AWS is, its key components like S3, EC2, EBS, and CloudWatch. It describes what S3 and AMI are and how to send requests to S3. It also discusses how to vertically scale Amazon instances, the components involved in AWS, Lambda@Edge, scalability vs flexibility, the layers of cloud architecture, and connection issues when connecting to instances.
AWS Interview Questions Part - 2 | AWS Interview Questions And Answers Part -...Simplilearn
This presentation about ‘AWS interview Questions’ will help every individual to prepare for their AWS job interviews. Also, the AWS interview questions mentioned in the presentation are the most frequently asked interview questions which have been explained with detailed answers and examples. In this presentation, you will see a list of questions related to:
1. AWS Snowball
2. AWS CloudFormation
3. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4. Amazon Elastic Block Store
5. AWS Elastic Load Balancing
6. AWS Security
7. AWS IAM
8. Amazon Route 53
9. AWS Config
According to Robert half, AWS Certified Solutions Architect is the second highest paying IT Certifications. However, AWS Solution Architect is one of the most in-demand jobs in cloud computing today. Learn and get a deeper understanding of these important AWS interview questions, which will help you to clear your interview process with ease.
This AWS certification training is designed to help you gain in-depth understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) architectural principles and services. You will learn how cloud computing is redefining the rules of IT architecture and how to design, plan, and scale AWS Cloud implementations with best practices recommended by Amazon. The AWS Cloud platform powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries, and AWS certified solution architects take home about $126,000 per year.
This AWS certification course will help you learn the key concepts, latest trends, and best practices for working with the AWS architecture – and become industry-ready aws certified solutions architect to help you qualify for a position as a high-quality AWS professional.
The course begins with an overview of the AWS platform before diving into its individual elements: IAM, VPC, EC2, EBS, ELB, CDN, S3, EIP, KMS, Route 53, RDS, Glacier, Snowball, Cloudfront, Dynamo DB, Redshift, Auto Scaling, Cloudwatch, Elastic Cache, CloudTrail, and Security. Those who complete the course will be able to:
1. Formulate solution plans and provide guidance on AWS architectural best practices
2. Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
3. Identify the lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS
4. Decipher the ingress and egress of data to and from AWS
5. Select the appropriate AWS service based on data, computer, database, or security requirements
6. Estimate AWS costs and identify cost control mechanisms
This AWS course is recommended for professionals who want to pursue a career in Cloud computing or develop Cloud applications with AWS. You’ll become an asset to any organization, helping leverage best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and migrate existing workloads to the cloud.
Learn more at https://www.simplilearn.com/cloud-computing/aws-solution-architect-associate-training.
This document provides an overview of Amazon EC2 and related AWS services. It discusses EC2 instance types and how to choose the right one based on factors like CPU, memory, storage and network performance. It also covers VPC networking, load balancing, monitoring with CloudWatch, security controls, and deployment options like Auto Scaling, CodeDeploy and ECS. The presentation aims to help users understand EC2 concepts, instance options, storage choices, basic VPC networking, monitoring tools, security best practices, and deployment strategies.
Os AWSome Days são baseados no Curso AWS Essentials e o conduzirá em um aprofundamento (passo a passo) na gama de serviços AWS, tais como: Computação, Armazenamento, Banco de Dados e Redes. No final da sessão, você estará apto a construir aplicativos escaláveis e seguros na nuvem da AWS.
This document provides an overview of security best practices when using AWS. It discusses AWS' shared security responsibility model and outlines key AWS security features such as IAM, encryption, firewalls, and monitoring tools. Recommendations are given for building secure infrastructure on AWS including account management, network segmentation, asset management, and monitoring. Case studies and additional resources are also referenced.
AWS is a cloud computing platform that provides on-demand computing resources and services. The key components of AWS include Route 53 (DNS), S3 (storage), EC2 (computing), EBS (storage volumes), and CloudWatch (monitoring). S3 provides scalable object storage, while EC2 allows users to launch virtual servers called instances. An AMI is a template used to launch EC2 instances that defines the OS, apps, and server configuration. Security best practices for EC2 include using IAM for access control and only opening required ports using security groups.
SEC101 A Guided Tour of AWS Identity and Access Management - AWS re: Invent…Amazon Web Services
Learn what AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) technologies are available for you to manage users and their access to your AWS environment. We present a high level discussion of the benefits and functionality IAM provides to control secure access to your AWS environment. We discuss how you can manage users and their permissions when using IAM, how roles makes it simpler for you delegate access, and how to use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to require additional proof of identity.
This document outlines the modules in an AWS training course. The course teaches students foundational AWS services like EC2, VPC, S3, and EBS, as well as security, databases, and management tools. The modules cover an introduction to AWS history and services, foundational compute, network and storage services, security and access management, databases, and management tools.
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a cloud computing platform offering computing, storage, database, and other services that help businesses and individuals build and host their applications in the cloud. Some key services include:
- EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) for virtual computing power
- S3 (Simple Storage Service) for object storage
- RDS (Relational Database Service) for database hosting
- CloudFront for content delivery network services
AWS aims to provide on-demand access to computing resources and pay-as-you-go pricing to enable customers to scale up or down depending on their needs. Its global infrastructure provides reliability and availability.
The document provides an overview of an AWS 101 presentation. It includes an agenda for the presentation covering AWS concepts and live demonstrations of keypairs, security groups, EC2 instances, autoscaling, Amazon Machine Images, S3, CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancer, and RDS. It also provides background information on Amazon Web Services and an overview of the various AWS services covered in the toolbox section.
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Danilo Poccia (AWS Solution Architect) e XPepper (AWS Trainig Partner) - Contenuto tecnico presentato durante l' AWSome Day tenutosi il 5 Marzo 2015 presso il PoliMi (Milano)
This document outlines an AWS training agenda that includes 16 sessions over 60 hours. It will cover topics such as AWS overview, identity and access management, VPC, EC2, S3, databases, migration, security, and disaster recovery. The training aims to help students design scalable and cost-efficient cloud systems, deploy projects on AWS, and prepare for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification.
Cloud computing refers to using internet-based computing resources that are dynamically scalable and often virtualized. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides cloud computing services including compute power (EC2), storage (S3), content delivery (CloudFront), databases (SimpleDB), messaging (SQS), and other tools. GigaVox implemented S3, EC2 and SQS in 2006, creating a scalable infrastructure for less than $100 that would have cost thousands to build themselves.
This document provides instructions for hosting a static website on AWS using Amazon S3 and CloudFront. It describes setting up an AWS account, creating an S3 bucket configured as a website, and creating a CloudFront distribution with the S3 bucket as the origin. Optional steps include using Route 53 for domain name routing and monitoring logs in S3. The goal is to provide low-cost, reliable, and high-performance hosting of static files through these AWS services.
This document provides a guide for hosting a web application on AWS using services like EC2, RDS, ELB, Auto Scaling, and CloudFormation. It includes 12 steps to sign up for AWS, launch instances, set up security, deploy an application, scale resources, and clean up. The goal is to create a scalable and robust web application on AWS to handle varying traffic loads in a cost effective manner.
The document provides guidance on using AWS services available in the free usage tier. It explains that the free tier gives access to limited usage of several AWS products for one year, including EC2 micro instances, S3, SES, SNS, SQS, and others. It provides tips for making the most of the free tier by running resources continuously and monitoring usage. It also provides steps to launch an EC2 instance and deploy a sample web application using Elastic Beanstalk, which automatically provisions supporting AWS services within the free usage limits.
This document provides a 14-step guide to deploying a sample .NET web application on AWS using best practices. The steps include: signing up for AWS, creating an S3 bucket and CloudFront distribution, launching EC2 instances and setting up auto scaling and load balancing, monitoring with CloudWatch, adding an RDS database, deploying the application, creating a custom AMI, using CloudFormation templates, and cleaning up resources. The guide demonstrates how to leverage services like EC2, S3, CloudFront, ELB, Auto Scaling, RDS, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation to build a scalable and robust web application on AWS.
Design for failure and nothing fails. How do you build a system which is designed from the beginning to withstand failure? This session will cover many techniques to develop a system which can remain available during times of disaster and failure. Take advantage of AWS Availability Zones to spread your system across multiple physical locations to isolate yourself from physical and geographical disruptions. Replicate your database and state information to increase availability. Presenter; Brett Hollman, Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services
This document provides tips for optimizing costs when using AWS. It discusses how AWS pricing models allow saving money compared to on-premises infrastructure as usage grows. Specific tips include choosing optimal instance types, using auto-scaling, stopping unused instances, reserving instances to save up to 75%, using spot instances for up to 92% discounts, using appropriate storage classes, offloading tasks from your architecture, leveraging AWS services rather than rebuilding capabilities, and using tools like Trusted Advisor to analyze spending. The goal is to continuously lower costs through economies of scale and passing savings to customers.
The document provides an overview of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and related AWS foundational services:
- EC2 allows users to launch virtual computing environments called instances, choosing between different configurations, operating systems, and pricing models.
- Related services include Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for virtual networking, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) for storage, and support tools like the AWS Management Console.
- The document discusses EC2 instance types, Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), networking, security, pricing options, and how to launch and manage instances.
The document provides answers to interview questions about AWS. It discusses what AWS is, its key components like S3, EC2, EBS, and CloudWatch. It describes what S3 and AMI are and how to send requests to S3. It also discusses how to vertically scale Amazon instances, the components involved in AWS, Lambda@Edge, scalability vs flexibility, the layers of cloud architecture, and connection issues when connecting to instances.
AWS Interview Questions Part - 2 | AWS Interview Questions And Answers Part -...Simplilearn
This presentation about ‘AWS interview Questions’ will help every individual to prepare for their AWS job interviews. Also, the AWS interview questions mentioned in the presentation are the most frequently asked interview questions which have been explained with detailed answers and examples. In this presentation, you will see a list of questions related to:
1. AWS Snowball
2. AWS CloudFormation
3. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4. Amazon Elastic Block Store
5. AWS Elastic Load Balancing
6. AWS Security
7. AWS IAM
8. Amazon Route 53
9. AWS Config
According to Robert half, AWS Certified Solutions Architect is the second highest paying IT Certifications. However, AWS Solution Architect is one of the most in-demand jobs in cloud computing today. Learn and get a deeper understanding of these important AWS interview questions, which will help you to clear your interview process with ease.
This AWS certification training is designed to help you gain in-depth understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) architectural principles and services. You will learn how cloud computing is redefining the rules of IT architecture and how to design, plan, and scale AWS Cloud implementations with best practices recommended by Amazon. The AWS Cloud platform powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries, and AWS certified solution architects take home about $126,000 per year.
This AWS certification course will help you learn the key concepts, latest trends, and best practices for working with the AWS architecture – and become industry-ready aws certified solutions architect to help you qualify for a position as a high-quality AWS professional.
The course begins with an overview of the AWS platform before diving into its individual elements: IAM, VPC, EC2, EBS, ELB, CDN, S3, EIP, KMS, Route 53, RDS, Glacier, Snowball, Cloudfront, Dynamo DB, Redshift, Auto Scaling, Cloudwatch, Elastic Cache, CloudTrail, and Security. Those who complete the course will be able to:
1. Formulate solution plans and provide guidance on AWS architectural best practices
2. Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
3. Identify the lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS
4. Decipher the ingress and egress of data to and from AWS
5. Select the appropriate AWS service based on data, computer, database, or security requirements
6. Estimate AWS costs and identify cost control mechanisms
This AWS course is recommended for professionals who want to pursue a career in Cloud computing or develop Cloud applications with AWS. You’ll become an asset to any organization, helping leverage best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and migrate existing workloads to the cloud.
Learn more at https://www.simplilearn.com/cloud-computing/aws-solution-architect-associate-training.
This document provides an overview of Amazon EC2 and related AWS services. It discusses EC2 instance types and how to choose the right one based on factors like CPU, memory, storage and network performance. It also covers VPC networking, load balancing, monitoring with CloudWatch, security controls, and deployment options like Auto Scaling, CodeDeploy and ECS. The presentation aims to help users understand EC2 concepts, instance options, storage choices, basic VPC networking, monitoring tools, security best practices, and deployment strategies.
Os AWSome Days são baseados no Curso AWS Essentials e o conduzirá em um aprofundamento (passo a passo) na gama de serviços AWS, tais como: Computação, Armazenamento, Banco de Dados e Redes. No final da sessão, você estará apto a construir aplicativos escaláveis e seguros na nuvem da AWS.
This document provides an overview of security best practices when using AWS. It discusses AWS' shared security responsibility model and outlines key AWS security features such as IAM, encryption, firewalls, and monitoring tools. Recommendations are given for building secure infrastructure on AWS including account management, network segmentation, asset management, and monitoring. Case studies and additional resources are also referenced.
AWS is a cloud computing platform that provides on-demand computing resources and services. The key components of AWS include Route 53 (DNS), S3 (storage), EC2 (computing), EBS (storage volumes), and CloudWatch (monitoring). S3 provides scalable object storage, while EC2 allows users to launch virtual servers called instances. An AMI is a template used to launch EC2 instances that defines the OS, apps, and server configuration. Security best practices for EC2 include using IAM for access control and only opening required ports using security groups.
SEC101 A Guided Tour of AWS Identity and Access Management - AWS re: Invent…Amazon Web Services
Learn what AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) technologies are available for you to manage users and their access to your AWS environment. We present a high level discussion of the benefits and functionality IAM provides to control secure access to your AWS environment. We discuss how you can manage users and their permissions when using IAM, how roles makes it simpler for you delegate access, and how to use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to require additional proof of identity.
This document outlines the modules in an AWS training course. The course teaches students foundational AWS services like EC2, VPC, S3, and EBS, as well as security, databases, and management tools. The modules cover an introduction to AWS history and services, foundational compute, network and storage services, security and access management, databases, and management tools.
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a cloud computing platform offering computing, storage, database, and other services that help businesses and individuals build and host their applications in the cloud. Some key services include:
- EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) for virtual computing power
- S3 (Simple Storage Service) for object storage
- RDS (Relational Database Service) for database hosting
- CloudFront for content delivery network services
AWS aims to provide on-demand access to computing resources and pay-as-you-go pricing to enable customers to scale up or down depending on their needs. Its global infrastructure provides reliability and availability.
The document provides an overview of an AWS 101 presentation. It includes an agenda for the presentation covering AWS concepts and live demonstrations of keypairs, security groups, EC2 instances, autoscaling, Amazon Machine Images, S3, CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancer, and RDS. It also provides background information on Amazon Web Services and an overview of the various AWS services covered in the toolbox section.
AWSome Day, Milan | 5 Marzo 2015 - Contenuto Tecnico (Danilo Poccia - AWS Sol...lanfranf
Danilo Poccia (AWS Solution Architect) e XPepper (AWS Trainig Partner) - Contenuto tecnico presentato durante l' AWSome Day tenutosi il 5 Marzo 2015 presso il PoliMi (Milano)
This document outlines an AWS training agenda that includes 16 sessions over 60 hours. It will cover topics such as AWS overview, identity and access management, VPC, EC2, S3, databases, migration, security, and disaster recovery. The training aims to help students design scalable and cost-efficient cloud systems, deploy projects on AWS, and prepare for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification.
Cloud computing refers to using internet-based computing resources that are dynamically scalable and often virtualized. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides cloud computing services including compute power (EC2), storage (S3), content delivery (CloudFront), databases (SimpleDB), messaging (SQS), and other tools. GigaVox implemented S3, EC2 and SQS in 2006, creating a scalable infrastructure for less than $100 that would have cost thousands to build themselves.
This document provides instructions for hosting a static website on AWS using Amazon S3 and CloudFront. It describes setting up an AWS account, creating an S3 bucket configured as a website, and creating a CloudFront distribution with the S3 bucket as the origin. Optional steps include using Route 53 for domain name routing and monitoring logs in S3. The goal is to provide low-cost, reliable, and high-performance hosting of static files through these AWS services.
This document provides a guide for hosting a web application on AWS using services like EC2, RDS, ELB, Auto Scaling, and CloudFormation. It includes 12 steps to sign up for AWS, launch instances, set up security, deploy an application, scale resources, and clean up. The goal is to create a scalable and robust web application on AWS to handle varying traffic loads in a cost effective manner.
The document provides guidance on using AWS services available in the free usage tier. It explains that the free tier gives access to limited usage of several AWS products for one year, including EC2 micro instances, S3, SES, SNS, SQS, and others. It provides tips for making the most of the free tier by running resources continuously and monitoring usage. It also provides steps to launch an EC2 instance and deploy a sample web application using Elastic Beanstalk, which automatically provisions supporting AWS services within the free usage limits.
This document provides a 14-step guide to deploying a sample .NET web application on AWS using best practices. The steps include: signing up for AWS, creating an S3 bucket and CloudFront distribution, launching EC2 instances and setting up auto scaling and load balancing, monitoring with CloudWatch, adding an RDS database, deploying the application, creating a custom AMI, using CloudFormation templates, and cleaning up resources. The guide demonstrates how to leverage services like EC2, S3, CloudFront, ELB, Auto Scaling, RDS, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation to build a scalable and robust web application on AWS.
Aws building fault_tolerant_applicationsSebin John
The document discusses building fault-tolerant applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Some key ways to achieve fault tolerance highlighted in the document include:
1) Using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) which contain application software configurations that can be easily launched across multiple server instances for redundancy.
2) Leveraging services like Auto Scaling to automatically launch new instances when demand increases or failures occur, Elastic Load Balancing to distribute traffic across instances, and Availability Zones which provide isolated infrastructure in each zone.
3) Storing data in fault-tolerant services like Amazon S3, SimpleDB, and RDS to ensure data availability even if server instances fail.
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This document discusses building fault-tolerant applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It describes several AWS services that can be used to achieve fault tolerance, such as Auto Scaling to automatically launch replacement instances if ones fail, Elastic Load Balancing to distribute traffic across multiple instances, and storing data on Amazon EBS volumes so it persists independently of instances. The document emphasizes that by taking advantage of these AWS services, failures can be dealt with automatically with minimal human intervention.
The document provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its computing services. It describes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which allows users to launch virtual servers called instances in AWS data centers. It provides flexibility, cost effectiveness, scalability, security and reliability. EC2 reduces time to obtain servers and allows users to pay only for what they use.
This document provides an overview of deploying Oracle E-Business Suite on AWS. It describes key AWS services like EC2, S3, EBS, and VPC that can be used. It also summarizes the core components of Oracle E-Business Suite and provides a reference architecture for running it on AWS. Some benefits mentioned are using AWS's scalable infrastructure, paying for only what you use, and gaining high availability.
The document outlines an AWS technical essentials training module on infrastructure. It describes the five modules that will be covered: AWS introduction and history, AWS infrastructure including compute, storage and networking services, security, identity and access management, databases, and AWS elasticity and management tools. It provides details on the first module which gives an overview of AWS history and services.
This presentation covers AWS foundational services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS as well as an introduction to AWS deployment tools and techniques and the next steps that you can take to continue developing your knowledge.
Testing of Serverless Application on Amazon WebService CloudRustam Zeynalov
The document discusses testing of serverless applications on Amazon Web Services. It provides a brief history of application architectures from on-premise to serverless. Serverless architectures significantly depend on third-party backend services (BaaS) or custom code run in ephemeral containers (FaaS). Key AWS services for serverless applications include Lambda, Fargate, S3, Step Functions, and CloudWatch. The document outlines different levels of testing for serverless applications and tools that can be used including the AWS console, SDK, and JetBrains plugin. It also discusses some challenges of testing serverless applications.
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The document outlines an AWS training module that covers:
- 5 modules that cover AWS history/introduction, infrastructure like EC2 and S3, security, databases, and management tools.
- Module 1 provides an introduction to AWS and its history starting from its launch in 2006.
- AWS has grown rapidly, launching over 1,950 services and features between 2009-2015 to provide scalable application services.
- EC2 provides resizable compute capacity that can be increased or decreased depending on needs, and only pays for what is used.
"Fast Start to Building on AWS", Igor IvaniukFwdays
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Building Fault-Tolerant Applications on AWS
October 2011
Jeff Barr, Attila Narin, and Jinesh Varia
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Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Failures Shouldn’t be THAT Interesting .................................................................................................................................. 3
Amazon Machine Images .................................................................................................................................................... 4
Elastic Block Store ............................................................................................................................................................... 6
Elastic IP Addresses ............................................................................................................................................................. 6
Failures Can Be Useful............................................................................................................................................................. 7
Auto Scaling......................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Elastic Load Balancing ......................................................................................................................................................... 9
Regions and Availability Zones ............................................................................................................................................ 9
Building Multi-AZ Architectures to Achieve High Availability ....................................................................................... 10
Reserved Instances ........................................................................................................................................................... 11
Fault-Tolerant Building Blocks .............................................................................................................................................. 12
Amazon Simple Queue Service ......................................................................................................................................... 12
Amazon Simple Storage Service........................................................................................................................................ 13
Amazon SimpleDB ............................................................................................................................................................. 13
Amazon Relational Database Service................................................................................................................................ 13
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Further Reading .................................................................................................................................................................... 15
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Introduction
Software has become a vital aspect of everyday life in nearly every part of the world. No matter where we are, we
interact with software–whether that is by using our mobile phone, withdrawing money from an automated bank
machine, or even by just stopping at a traffic light.
Because software has become such an integral part of our daily lives, a great deal of work has to be done to ensure that
this software remains operational and available.
Generally speaking, this area of study is known as fault-tolerance, the ability for a system to remain in operation even if
some of the components used to build the system fail.
Although it’s true that essential systems must be available at all times, we also expect a much wider range of software to
always be available to us. For example, we may want to visit an e-commerce site to purchase a product. Whether it is at
9:00am on a Monday morning or 3:00am on a holiday, we expect that the site will be available and ready to accept our
purchase. The cost of not meeting these expectations can be crippling to many businesses. Even with very conservative
assumptions, it is estimated that a busy e-commerce site could lose thousands of dollars for every minute it is
unavailable. This is just one example of why businesses and organizations strive to develop software systems that can
survive faults.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a platform that is ideally suited for building fault-tolerant software systems.
However, this attribute is not unique to our platform. Given enough resources and time, one can build a fault-tolerant
software system on almost any platform. The AWS platform is unique because it enables you to build fault-tolerant
systems that operate with a minimal amount of human interaction and up-front financial investment.
Failures Shouldn’t be THAT Interesting
When a server crashes or a hard disk runs out of room in an on-premises datacenter environment, administrators are
notified immediately, because these are noteworthy events that require at least their attention — if not their
intervention as well. The ideal state in a traditional, on-premises datacenter environment tends to be one where failure
notifications are delivered reliably to a staff of administrators who are ready to spring into action in order to solve the
problem. Many organizations are able to reach this state of IT nirvana – however, doing so typically requires extensive
experience, up-front financial investment, and significant human resources.
This is not the case when using the platform provided by Amazon Web Services. Ideally, failures in an application built on
our platform can be dealt with automatically by the system itself, and as a result, are fairly uninteresting events.
Amazon Web Services gives you access to a vast amount of IT infrastructure–computing, storage, and communications–
that you can allocate automatically (or nearly automatically) to account for almost any kind of failure. You are only
charged for resources that you actually use, so there is no up-front financial investment to be made.
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Amazon Machine Images
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service within Amazon Web Services that provides computing
resources – literally server instances – that you use to build and host your software systems. Amazon EC2 is a natural
entry point to Amazon Web Services for your application development. You can build a highly reliable and fault-tolerant
system using multiple EC2 instances—using the tools and ancillary services such as Auto Scaling and Elastic Load
Balancing.
On the surface, Amazon EC2 instances are very similar to traditional hardware servers. Amazon EC2 instances use
familiar operating systems like Linux, Windows, or OpenSolaris. As such, they can accommodate nearly any kind of
software that can run on those operating systems. Amazon EC2 instances have IP addresses so the usual methods of
interacting with a remote machine (e.g., SSH or RDP) can be used.
The template that you use to define your service instances is called an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). This template
basically contains a software configuration (i.e., operating system, application server, and applications) and is applied to
an instance type1.
Instance types in Amazon EC2 are essentially hardware archetypes – you choose an instance type that matches the
amount of memory (i.e., RAM) and computing power (i.e., number of CPUs) that you need for your application.
A single AMI can be used to create server resources of different instance types; this relationship is illustrated below.
AMI
Figure 1 - Amazon Machine Image
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Instance Types - http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
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Amazon publishes many AMIs that contain common software configurations. In addition, various members of the AWS
developer community have also published their own custom AMIs. All of these AMIs can be found on the Amazon
Machine Image resources page2 on the AWS web site.
However, the first step towards building fault-tolerant applications on AWS is to create a library of your own AMIs. Your
application should be comprised of at least one AMI that you have created. Starting your application then is simply a
matter of launching the AMI.
For example, if your application is a web site or web service, your AMI should be configured with a web server (e.g.,
Apache or Microsoft Internet Information Server), the associated static content, and the code for all dynamic pages.
Alternatively, you could configure your AMI to install all required software components and content itself by running a
bootstrap script as soon as the instance is launched. As a result, after launching the AMI, your web server will start and
your application can begin accepting requests.
Once you have created an AMI, replacing a failing instance is very simple; you can literally just launch a replacement
instance that uses the same AMI as its template.
This can be done through an API invocation, through scriptable command-line tools, or through the AWS Management
Console as illustrated below. Later in this document, we introduce the Auto Scaling service, which can replace failed or
degraded instances with fresh ones automatically.
Figure 2 - Launching an Amazon EC2 Instance
This is really just the first step towards fault-tolerance. At this point, you are able to quickly recover from failures; if an
instance fails, or is not behaving the way you want it to, you can simply launch another one based on the same
template. To minimize downtime, you might even always keep a spare instance running – ready to take over in the
event of a failure. This can be done efficiently using elastic IP addresses. You can easily fail over to a replacement
instance or spare running instance by remapping your elastic IP address to the new instance. Elastic IP addresses are
described in more detail later in the document.
Being able to quickly launch replacement instances based on an AMI that you define is a critical first step towards fault
tolerance. The next step is storing persistent data that these server instances have access to.
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Amazon Machine Images Resources page - http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=171
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Elastic Block Store
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances.
Amazon EBS volumes are off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance.
Amazon EBS volumes are essentially hard disks that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2 instance. Amazon EBS is
especially suited for applications that require a database, a file system, or access to raw block level storage. EBS volumes
store data redundantly, making them more durable than a typical hard drive. The annual failure rate (AFR) for an EBS
volume is 0.1% and 0.5%, compared to 4% for a commodity hard drive.
Amazon EBS and Amazon EC2 are often used in conjunction with one another when building a fault-tolerant application
on the AWS platform. Any data that needs to persist should be stored on Amazon EBS volumes, not on the so-called
“ephemeral storage” associated with each Amazon EC2 instance. If the Amazon EC2 instance fails and needs to be
replaced, the Amazon EBS volume can simply be attached to the new Amazon EC2 instance. Since this new instance is
essentially a duplicate of the original, there should be no loss of data or functionality.
Amazon EBS volumes are highly reliable, but to further mitigate the possibility of a failure, backups of these volumes can
be created using a feature called snapshots. A robust backup strategy will include an interval (time between backups,
generally daily but perhaps more frequently for certain applications), a retention period (dependent on the application
and the business requirements for rollback), and a recovery plan. Snapshots are stored for high-durability in Amazon S3.
Snapshots can be used to create new Amazon EBS volumes, which are an exact replica of the original volume at the time
the snapshot was taken. Because backups represent the on-disk state of the application, care must be taken to flush in-
memory data to disk before initiating a snapshot.
These Amazon EBS operations can be performed through the API or from the AWS Management Console, as illustrated
below.
Figure 3 - Amazon EBS
Elastic IP Addresses
Elastic IP Addresses are public IP addresses that can be mapped (routed) to any EC2 instance within a particular EC2
Region. The addresses are associated with an AWS account, not to a specific instance or the lifetime of an instance, and
are designed to aid in the construction of fault-tolerant applications. An elastic IP address can be detached from a failed
instance and then mapped to a replacement instance within a very short time frame. As with Amazon EBS volumes (and
for all other EC2 resources for that matter), all operations on elastic IP addresses can be performed programmatically
through the API, or manually from the AWS Management Console:
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Figure 4 - Elastic IP addresses
Failures Can Be Useful
“I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real
programmers will say ‘yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix
that.’ I'll just restart Apache every 10 requests.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP)
Though often not readily admitted, the reality is that most software systems will degrade over time. This is due in part to
any or all of the following reasons:
1. Software will leak memory and/or resources. This includes software that you have written, as well as software
that you depend on (e.g., application frameworks, operating systems, and device drivers).
2. File systems will fragment over time and impact performance.
3. Hardware (particularly storage) devices will physically degrade over time.
Disciplined software engineering can mitigate some of these problems, but ultimately even the most sophisticated
software system is dependent on a number of components that are out of its control (e.g., operating system, firmware,
and hardware). Eventually, some combination of hardware, system software, and your software will cause a failure and
interrupt the availability of your application.
In a traditional IT environment, hardware can be regularly maintained and serviced, but there are practical and financial
limits to how aggressively this can be done. However, with Amazon EC2, you can terminate and recreate the resources
you need at will.
An application that takes full advantage of the AWS platform can be refreshed periodically with new server instances.
This ensures that any potential degradation does not adversely affect your system as a whole. In a sense, you are using
what would be considered a failure (e.g., a server termination) as a forcing function to refresh this resource.
Using this approach, an AWS application is more accurately defined as the service it provides to its clients, rather than
the server instance(s) it is comprised of. With this mindset, the server instances themselves become immaterial and
even disposable.
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Auto Scaling
The concept of automatically provisioning and scaling compute resources is a crucial aspect of any well-engineered,
fault-tolerant application running on the Amazon Web Services platform. Auto Scaling3 is a powerful option that you can
very easily apply to your application.
Auto Scaling enables you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down. You can define rules that
determine when more (or fewer) server instances are needed, such as:
1. When the number of functioning server instances is above (or below) a certain number, launch (or terminate)
server instances
2. When the resource utilization (i.e. CPU, network or disk) of the server instance fleet is above (or below) a certain
threshold, launch (or terminate) server instances. Such metrics will be collected from the Amazon CloudWatch
service, which monitors Amazon EC2 instances.
Auto Scaling enables you to terminate server instances at will, knowing that replacement instances will be automatically
launched. Auto Scaling also enables you to add more instances in response to an increasing load; and when those
instances are no longer needed, they will be automatically terminated.
These rules enable you to implement a number of traditional redundancy patterns very easily.
For example, ‘N + 1 redundancy4’ is a very popular strategy for ensuring a resource (e.g., a database) is always available.
‘N + 1’ dictates that there should be N+1 resources operational, when N resources are sufficient to handle the
anticipated load.
This approach is ideal for Auto Scaling. To implement N + 1 with Auto Scaling, you simply define a rule that there should
always be at least 2 instances of a given AMI available. When used in conjunction with Elastic Load Balancing, each
instance would handle a fraction of the incoming load, with sufficient headroom (unused capacity) on each instance to
handle the entire load if necessary. If one instance fails, Auto Scaling will immediately launch a replacement, since the
minimum threshold of 2 instances was breeched. Auto Scaling will always ensure that you have 2 healthy server
instances available.
Since Auto Scaling will automatically detect failures and launch replacement instances, if an instance is not behaving as
expected (e.g., it is running with poor performance), you can simply terminate that instance and a new one will be
launched.
By using Auto Scaling, you can (and should) regularly turn your instances over to ensure that any leaks or degradation do
not impact your application – you can literally set expiry dates on your server instances to ensure they remain ‘fresh.’
With an ‘N+1’ approach, you can also have the additional server accept requests – this enables your application to
transition seamlessly in case the primary server fails. The Elastic Load Balancing feature in Amazon EC2 is an ideal way to
balance the load amongst your servers.
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Auto Scaling is applicable in a number of scenarios; this document will examine how to it specifically towards achieving fault-
tolerance.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%2B1_redundancy
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Elastic Load Balancing
Elastic Load Balancing is an AWS product that distributes incoming traffic to your application across several Amazon EC2
instances. When you use Elastic Load Balancing, you are given a DNS host name – any requests sent to this host name
are delegated to a pool of Amazon EC2 instances.
Incoming Traffic
Elastic Load Balancing
Delegated to Amazon EC2 Instances
Figure 5 - Elastic Load Balancing
Elastic Load Balancing detects unhealthy instances within its pool of Amazon EC2 instances and automatically reroutes
traffic to healthy instances, until the unhealthy instances have been restored.
Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing are an ideal combination – Elastic Load Balancing gives you a single DNS name
for addressing and Auto Scaling ensures there is always the right number of healthy Amazon EC2 instances to accept
requests.
Regions and Availability Zones
Another key element to achieving greater fault tolerance is to distribute your application geographically. If a single
Amazon Web Services datacenter fails for any reason, you can protect your application by running it simultaneously in a
geographically distant datacenter.
Amazon Web Services are available in geographic Regions. When you use AWS, you can specify the Region in which your
data will be stored, instances run, queues started, and databases instantiated. For most AWS infrastructure services,
including Amazon EC2, there are five Regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland),
Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Japan). Amazon S3 has a slightly different region structure: US Standard, which
encompasses datacenters throughout the United States, US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific
(Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Japan).
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Within each Region are Availability Zones (AZs). Availability Zones are distinct locations that are engineered to be
insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other
Availability Zones in the same Region. By launching instances in separate Availability Zones, you can protect your
applications from a failure (unlikely as it might be) that affects an entire zone.
Regions consist of one or more Availability Zones, are geographically dispersed, and are in separate geographic areas or
countries. The Amazon EC2 service level agreement commitment is 99.95% availability for each Amazon EC2 Region.
Building Multi-AZ Architectures to Achieve High Availability
You can achieve High Availability by deploying your application that spans across multiple Availability Zones. Redundant
instances for each tier (e.g. web, application, and database) of an application could be placed in distinct Availability
Zones thereby creating a multi-site solution. The desired goal is to have an independent copy of each application stack in
two or more Availability Zones.
To achieve even more fault tolerance with less manual intervention, you can use Elastic Load Balancing. You get
improved fault tolerance by placing your compute instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer, as it can automatically
balance traffic across multiple instances and multiple Availability Zones and ensure that only healthy Amazon EC2
instances receive traffic. You can set up an Elastic Load Balancer to balance incoming application traffic across Amazon
EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone or multiple Availability Zones. Elastic Load Balancing can detect the health of
Amazon EC2 instances. When it detects unhealthy Amazon EC2 instances, it no longer routes traffic to those unhealthy
instances. Instead, it spreads the load across the remaining healthy instances. If all of your Amazon EC2 instances in a
particular Availability Zone are unhealthy, but you have set up instances in multiple Availability Zones, Elastic Load
Balancing will route traffic to your healthy Amazon EC2 instances in those other zones. It will resume load balancing to
the original Amazon EC2 instances when they have been restored to a healthy state.
This multi-site solution is highly available, and by design will cope with individual component or even Availability Zone
failures.
The figure below illustrates a highly available system on AWS, which spans two Availability Zones (AZs).
Figure 6: Leverage Elastic Load Balancers and Multi-Availability Zones
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Elastic IP Addresses play a critical role in the design of a fault-tolerant application spanning multiple Availability Zones.
The failover mechanism can easily re-route the IP address (and hence the incoming traffic) away from a failed instance
or zone to a replacement instance.
Figure 7: Leverage Elastic IPs and Multi-Availability Zones
Auto Scaling can work across multiple Availability Zones in an AWS Region, making it easier to automate increasing and
decreasing of capacity. AWS database offerings, like SimpleDB and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
can help to reduce the cost and complexity of operating a multi-site system. Please refer to the Fault-Tolerant Building
Blocks section for more details.
Reserved Instances
All of the techniques examined so far have relied on the assumption that you will be able to procure Amazon EC2
instances whenever you need them.
Amazon Web Services has massive hardware resources at its disposal, but like any cloud computing provider, those
resources are finite. The best way for users to maximize their access to these resources is by reserving a portion of the
computing capacity that they require. This can be done through a feature called Reserved Instances.
With Reserved Instances, you literally reserve computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Doing so enables
you to take advantage of a lower price, but more importantly in the context of fault tolerance, it will maximize your
chances of getting the computing capacity you need.
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Fault-Tolerant Building Blocks
Amazon EC2 and its related features provide a powerful, yet economic platform to deploy and build your applications
upon. However, they are just one aspect of Amazon Web Services as a whole.
Amazon Web Services offers a number of other products that can be incorporated into your application development.
These web services are implicitly fault-tolerant, so by using them, you will be increasing the fault tolerance of your own
applications.
Amazon Simple Queue Service
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a highly reliable distributed messaging system that can serve as the backbone of
your fault-tolerant application.
Messages are stored in queues that you create – each queue is defined as a URL, so it can be accessed by any server that
has access to the Internet, subject to the Access Control List (ACL) of the queue. You can use Amazon SQS to help you
ensure that your queue is always available; any messages that you send to a queue are retained for up to four days (or
until they are read and deleted by your application).
A canonical system architecture using Amazon SQS is illustrated below.
message message
message message
message
message
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Amazon SQS
message message message
Worker Worker Worker Worker Worker
Figure 8 - Amazon SQS System Architecture
In this example, an Amazon SQS queue is used to accept requests. A number of Amazon EC2 instances constantly poll
that queue, looking for requests. When a request is received, one of these Amazon EC2 instances will pick up that
request and process it. When that instance is done processing the request, it goes back to polling.
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If the number of messages in a queue starts to grow or if the average time to process a message becomes too high, you
can scale upwards by simply adding more workers on additional Amazon EC2 instances.
It is common to incorporate Auto Scaling to manage these Amazon EC2 instances to ensure that there is an adequate
supply of EC2 instances that run ‘workers’ consuming messages from the queue. Even in an extreme case where all of
the worker processes have failed, Amazon SQS will simply store the messages that it receives. Messages are stored for
up to four days, so you have plenty of time to launch replacement Amazon EC2 instances.
Once a message has been pulled from an SQS queue, it becomes invisible to other consumers for a configurable time
interval known as a visibility timeout. After the consumer has processed the message, it must delete the message from
the queue. If the time interval specified by the visibility timeout has passed, but the message isn't deleted, it is once
again visible in the queue and another consumer will be able to pull and process it. This two-phase model ensures that
no queue items are lost if the consuming application fails while it is processing a message.
Amazon Simple Storage Service
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a deceptively simple web service that provides highly durable, fault-
tolerant data storage. Amazon Web Services is responsible for maintaining availability and fault-tolerance; you simply
pay for the storage that you use.
Behind the scenes, Amazon S3 stores objects redundantly on multiple devices across multiple facilities in an Amazon S3
Region – so even in the case of a failure in an Amazon Web Service data center, you will still have access to your data.
Amazon S3 is ideal for any kind of object data storage requirements that your application might have. Amazon S3 is
accessed by URL like Amazon SQS, so any computing resource that has access to the Internet can use it.
Amazon S3's Versioning feature allows you to retain prior versions of objects stored in S3 and also protects against
accidental deletions initiated by a misbehaving application. Versioning can be enabled for any of your S3 buckets.
By using Amazon S3, you can delegate the responsibility of one critical aspect of fault-tolerance – data storage – to
Amazon Web Services.
Amazon SimpleDB
Amazon SimpleDB is a fault-tolerant and durable structured data storage solution. With Amazon SimpleDB, you can
decorate your data with attributes, and query for that data based on the values of those attributes. In many scenarios,
Amazon SimpleDB can be used to augment or even replace your use of traditional relational databases such as MySQL or
Microsoft SQL Server.
Amazon SimpleDB is highly available for your use, just like Amazon S3 and the other services. By using Amazon
SimpleDB, you can take advantage of a scalable service that has been designed for high-availability and fault tolerance.
Data stored in Amazon SimpleDB is stored redundantly without single points of failures.
Amazon Relational Database Service
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to run relational databases in the
cloud. In the context of building fault-tolerant and highly available applications, Amazon RDS offers several features to
enhance the reliability of critical databases.
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Automated backups of your database enable point-in-time recovery for your database instance. Amazon RDS will back
up your database and transaction logs and store both for a user-specified retention period. This feature is enabled by
default.
Similar to Amazon EBS snapshots, with Amazon RDS, you can initiate snapshots of your DB Instance. These full database
backups will be stored by Amazon RDS until you explicitly delete them. You can create a new DB Instance from a DB
Snapshot whenever you desire. This can help you to recover from higher-level faults such as unintentional data
modification, either by operator error or by bugs in the application.
Amazon RDS also supports a Multi-AZ deployment feature. If this is enabled, a synchronous standby replica of your
database is provisioned in a different Availability Zone. Updates to your DB Instance are synchronously replicated across
Availability Zones to the standby in order to keep both databases in sync. In case of a failover scenario, the standby is
promoted to be the primary and will handle your database operations. Running your DB Instance as a Multi-AZ
deployment safeguards your data in the unlikely event of a DB Instance component failure or service health disruption in
one Availability Zone.
Conclusion
Amazon EC2 is a natural entry point for your application development; its server instances are conceptually very similar
to traditional servers; this greatly reduces the learning curve for developing applications for the cloud. However, using
Amazon EC2 server instances in the same manner as traditional hardware server instances is only a starting point –
doing so will not greatly improve your fault-tolerance, performance, or even your overall cost.
The complete benefits of the Amazon Web Services platform are realized when you incorporate more features of
Amazon EC2, as well as other Amazon Web Services products.
In order to build fault-tolerant applications on Amazon EC2, it’s important to follow best practices such as quickly being
able to commission replacement instances, using Amazon EBS for persistent storage, and taking advantage of multiple
Availability Zones and elastic IP addresses.
Using Auto Scaling enables you to greatly reduce the amount of time and resources you need to monitor your servers –
if a failure occurs, a replacement will be automatically launched for you. Diagnosing an unhealthy server can be as
simple as terminating it and letting Auto Scaling launch a new one for you.
Elastic Load Balancing enables you to publish a single, well-known end point for your application. The ebb and flow of
Amazon EC2 instances launching, failing, being terminated and being re-launched will be hidden from your users.
Amazon SQS, Amazon S3, and Amazon SimpleDB are higher-level building blocks that you can incorporate into your
application. These services are excellent examples of how to achieve fault-tolerance, and they in turn increase the fault-
tolerance of your application. With Amazon RDS you have easy access to features that enable fault-tolerant database
deployments, including automatic backups, snapshots, and Multi-AZ deployments.
Above all, the pricing model of Amazon Web Services gives you the option to experiment – there is no upfront
investment, you simply pay for what you use. If a particular aspect of the Amazon Web Services platform turns out not
to be suitable for your application, your investment is complete as soon as you stop using it.
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The power, sophistication, and economic transparency offered by Amazon Web Services provide you with an
unparalleled platform upon which to build your fault-tolerant software.
Further Reading
1. Best Practices for using Elastic IPs and Availability Zones - http://support.rightscale.com/09-Clouds/AWS/02-
Amazon_EC2/Designing_Failover_Architectures_on_EC2/00-
Best_Practices_for_using_Elastic_IPs_%28EIP%29_and_Availability_Zones
2. Setting up Fault-tolerant site using Amazon’s Availability Zones -
http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/03/26/setting-up-a-fault-tolerant-site-using-amazons-availability-zones/
3. Scalr - https://scalr.net/login.php
4. Creating a virtual data center with Scalr and Amazon Web Services -
http://scottmartin.net/2009/07/11/creating-a-virtual-datacenter-with-scalr-and-amazon-web-services/
5. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing - http://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/
6. Auto Scaling Service – http://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling
7. Instance Types - http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
8. Elastic Block Store - http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
9. Amazon Machine Images Resources -
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=171
10. Amazon Relational Database Service - http://aws.amazon.com/rds/
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