Domain Five -Defining Operationally Excellent Architectures- Summary

In this module, we applied the skills we have learned thus far to select and combine AWS services together to create a highly available web site. First, we defined a solution design based on the requirements we were given. Then we implemented our solution in the AWS console setting up EC2 instances in multiple AZ’s, setting up an Elastic Load Balancer and creating an auto scale group. We implemented CloudWatch alarms and triggers. We then reviewed our solution architecture looking for possible improvements and optimizations, deciding to implement the Aurora database service to optimized for high availability in our design. We identified that automation would be another optimization we could introduce to our solution to create the most operationally efficient architecture possible.

We then learned to recognize and explain some of the AWS deployment services available by completing two hands-on labs - first, we deployed a highly available solution using AWS CloudFormation.  Then we ran a controlled deployment using AWS Elastic Beanstalk.