Episode 3: High Availability and Auto Scaling

 

In the third episode of our series, we’ll expand our website that is hosted on a single server and bring high availability into the discussion. We’ll talk about reacting to capacity change with Auto Scaling groups and leverage Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront to reduce latency to our end users.

Resources:
Resiliency from the Well-Architected Framework
An AWS Cloud architecture for web hosting
Tutorial: Set up a scaled and load-balanced application
How to set up a CloudFront distribution for Amazon S3
Restricting access to Amazon S3 content by using an origin access identity (OAI)

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