High Availability


Overview/Description
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level


Overview/Description

Explore the various services and infrastructure options available in AWS to build fault-tolerant and highly available systems in the cloud.



Expected Duration (hours)
0.8

Lesson Objectives

High Availability

  • provide an overview and list the characteristics and benefits of high availability in AWS, and compare functionality to fault tolerance
  • describe service level agreements to better understand what exactly AWS is promising customers
  • list the consequences of single points of failure in AWS
  • list the benefits of AWS Global Infrastructure
  • describe the benefits of elastic load balancing with AWS
  • describe how EBS volumes are highly available and reliable in AWS
  • configure auto scaling to maintain application performance and availability in AWS
  • describe the importance of having a failure management plan in AWS
  • demonstrate how to configure AWS high availability features and Elastic Block Store settings

    • Course Number:
    it_clawsa_01_enus

    Expertise Level
    Expert