AWS for Architects: High Availability and Continuous Deployment

Learn how to get your apps in front of users by using continuous deployment and high availability. Also, prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• About using cloud services

1. Understanding High Availability

• AWS well-architected reliability
• Understanding failure scenarios
• Calculating availability goals
• AWS locations, regions, and AZs
• True cost of HA
• Prepare for HA

2. Design for High Availability

• HA for serverless and server-based websites
• HA for an internal business application
• HA for a big data pipeline
• HA for an IoT and machine learning application

3. Understanding Continuous Deployment

• Understanding terms: Continuous deployment
• What is code? (app code and configuration code)
• Types of verification tests used in CD
• AWS CD services and an example
• CD via blue-green deployments
• CD via canary deploys and feature toggles
• Server mutability and CD
• Planning for CD

4. Implementing Continuous Delivery

• Automated CD with CodeStar
• Using CodeStar pipeline(s)
• Understanding advanced CD pipelines
• Cross-account CD pipeline
• CD pipeline with Step Functions
• Blue-green CD deployment
• Apache Spark CD pipeline

Conclusion

• Next steps