SAA-C03 Introduction
Decoupled Architecture
AWS Step Functions
Which services should I use to build a decoupled architecture?
Streaming Data
Mobile Apps
AWS Machine Learning Services
Design a Multi-Tier Solution
When To Go Serverless
Design considerations
AWS Migration Services
SAA-C03 Review
The course is part of this learning path
Domain One of The AWS Solution Architect Associate exam guide SAA-C03 requires us to be able to Design a multi-tier architecture solution so that is our topic for this section.
We cover the need to know aspects of how to design Multi-Tier solutions using AWS services.
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Learning Objectives
- Learn some of the essential services for creating multi-tier architect on AWS, including the Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Simple Notification Service (SNS)
- Understand data streaming and how Amazon Kinesis can be used to stream data
- Learn how to design a multi-tier solution on AWS, and the important aspects to take into consideration when doing so
- Learn how to design cost-optimized AWS architectures
- Understand how to leverage AWS services to migrate applications and databases to the AWS Cloud
As the AWS Cloud continues to gain attraction and popularity, it's not unusual for existing data center applications to be already using some form of message broker. IBMMQ, TIBCO EMS, RabbitMQ, and Apache ActiveMQ have a widespread use in existing data centers across the world. As cloud adoption continues, sometimes they need to move existing applications from a local data center to AWS is required with no modification to the existing code. If you are already using messaging APIs like Java Message Service, .Net Message Service, MQ Telemetry Transport, or WebSockets, you can actually move your existing application with no code modification by using the Amazon MQ Service. Amazon MQ is AWS managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ, and is compliant with existing code leveraging JMS, NMS, MQTT and WebSockets.
The idea for the service is to enable you and migrate your messaging and applications without having to rewrite your code. Amazon MQ is cost-effective in that you pay for broker instance and storage as you need them. The service is automated in terms of administration and maintenance, and it's highly available in a region. The storage, like many other AWS services is implemented across multiple availability zones and you can implement active and standby configurations with automatic failover. Amazon MQ also provides message encryption in transit using SSL and at rest using AES 256 encryption. Network isolation of your message broker instance can be implemented using a private endpoint in your Amazon VPC and configuring security groups to control network accessibility. The service integrates seamlessly with Amazon CloudWatch for the monitoring of metrics on existing queues, topics, and the broker itself. It also integrates with AWS CloudTrail for log in. Consider Amazon MQ when migrating existing applications that are already using a message broker, and you want to keep your applications as they are written.
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