AWS for Developers: ECS and Multi-Region Load Balancing

Scale across multiple AWS regions for high availability and faster response times. Learn how to set up multi-region load balancing with Amazon Route 53.

Introduction

• Why load balance across regions?
• What you should know
• Course outline

1. DynamoDB Global Tables

• Overview of DynamoDB
• Creating a DynamoDB table
• Availability Zones vs. Regions
• DynamoDB cross-region replication
• Creating a DynamoDB global table
• Inserting records into DynamoDB

2. Deploying Docker Containers with CodePipeline to ECS

• Track code changes using CodeCommit
• Storing Docker images with ECR
• Create an ECS task definition
• Create an ECS cluster
• CI with Docker and CodeBuild
• CD with ECS and CodeDeploy

3. Load Balancing Within a Single Region

• Overview of Application Load Balancer
• ALB Listener Rules
• Adding an SSL certificate to ALB
• Health checks with ALB
• Testing failover with ALB

4. Scaling Across Regions with Route 53

• Deploying across regions
• Cross-region actions with CodePipeline
• Load balancing with DNS
• DNS routing with Route53
• Location-based routing
• Testing cross-region failover

Conclusion

• Next steps