AWS for Architects: High Availability and Continuous Deployment

Course details

Discover how to get your apps in front of users as soon as possible—and ensure that those same apps are highly available—by leveraging continuous deployment (CD) and high availability (HA) strategies. This course shows IT pros how to use AWS CD and HA services, techniques, and tools. Instructor Lynn Langit covers key concepts around both CD and HA, including the impact of AWS regions and availability zones on HA design. She also goes over key services such as Step Functions, shows how to work with common application patterns, and discusses how to implement CD and HA. This course can also prepare you for the High Availability and Business Continuity domain in the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam.

Learning objectives
Understanding high availability (HA)
Preparing for HA
Designing for HA
Understanding continuous deployment (CD)
Types of verification tests used in CD
Server mutability and CD
Implementing CD
Advanced CD pipeline techniques
CD pipeline with Step Functions

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know
03 - About using cloud services

1. Understanding High Availability

04 - AWS well-architected reliability
05 - Understanding failure scenarios
06 - Calculating availability goals
07 - AWS locations, regions, and AZs
08 - True cost of HA
09 - Prepare for HA

2. Design for High Availability

10 - HA for serverless and server-based websites
11 - HA for an internal business application
12 - HA for a big data pipeline
13 - HA for an IoT and machine learning application

3. Understanding Continuous Deployment

14 - Understanding terms - Continuous deployment
15 - What is code (app code and configuration code)
16 - Types of verification tests used in CD
17 - AWS CD services and an example
18 - CD via blue-green deployments
19 - CD via canary deploys and feature toggles
20 - Server mutability and CD
21 - Planning for CD

4. Implementing Continuous Delivery

22 - Automated CD with CodeStar
23 - Using CodeStar pipeline(s)
24 - Understanding advanced CD pipelines
25 - Cross-account CD pipeline
26 - CD pipeline with Step Functions
27 - Blue-green CD deployment
28 - Apache Spark CD pipeline

Conclusion

29 - Next steps