Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Part 6: AWS High Availability Patterns : Using AWS Building Blocks


Architecting High Availability using AWS Building Blocks

AWS offers infrastructure building blocks like 
  • Amazon S3 for Object and File storage
  • Amazon CloudFront for CDN
  • Amazon ELB for Load balancing
  • Amazon AutoScaling for Scaling out EC2 automatically
  • Amazon CloudWatch for Monitoring
  • Amazon SNS and SQS for Messaging
as Web Services which developers and Architects can use in their App Architecture. These building blocks are inherently fault tolerant, robust and scalable in nature. They are in built with Multi-AZ capability for High availability. Example: S3 is designed to provide 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability of objects over a given year. It is designed to sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities. Applications architected using these building blocks can leverage the experience of Amazon engineers for building highly available systems in the form of simple API calls. Everyday amazon team is working internally on improving these building blocks by adding more features, making them robust and usable. These building blocks have their own advantages and limitations and have to be carefully used in the architecture based on the use case and fitment. Ideal usage of these building blocks drastically cuts down the cost of developing and maintaining a complex system infrastructure and helps the teams focus on the product rather than infrastructure.




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