Advanced Architecting on Amazon Web Services: Scalability and Elasticity


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level



Overview/Description
Scalability and elasticity are the two promises of cloud computing that elevate it above traditional IT and provide the potential for the global scale and cost-effective applications that you are used to. This course covers scaling and elasticity in multitier architectures and for different AWS Services. It is one in a series of Skillsoft courses that cover the objectives for the Amazon certification AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.

Target Audience
Candidates for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam, and other learners with advanced cloud implementation skills looking to get the best out of the Amazon Web Services platform

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.6

Lesson Objectives

Advanced Architecting on Amazon Web Services: Scalability and Elasticity

  • start the course
  • describe the architectural technique of loose coupling for application on Amazon Web Services
  • describe the principle of designing for failure as it relates to cloud application on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how auto scaling is used in loosely coupled systems on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how Elastic Load Balancing is used in loosely coupled systems on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how multi-availability zone architectures are used on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how Route53 Domain Name Service can be used for scaling the front end of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how Elastic Compute Cloud instances can be used for scaling the front end of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how Elastic Load Balancer can be used for scaling the front end of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how Auto Scaling Groups can be used for scaling the front end of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how CloudFront CDN can be used for scaling the front end of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how Simple Storage Service can be used for scaling the front end of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how Elastic Compute Cloud instances can be used for scaling the middle tier of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how Elastic Load Balancer can be used for scaling the middle tier of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how Auto Scaling Groups can be used for scaling the middle tier of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how Relational Database Service can be used to scale the database tier of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how Dynamo can be used to scale the database tier of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how NoSQL can be used to scale the database tier of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe how Elastic Block Store can be used to scale the database tier of application architectures on Amazon Web Services
  • describe vertical scaling for applications on Amazon Web Services
  • describe horizontal scaling for applications on Amazon Web Services
  • describe use cases for vertical scaling on Amazon Web Services
  • describe use cases for horizontal scaling on Amazon Web Services
  • plan scaling options for an application on Amazon Web Services
  • Course Number:
    cl_awsp_a07_it_enus

    Expertise Level
    Expert