regions world wide • Independent • Isolated • Have 3 or more Availability Zones • Availability Zones • Connected through low-latency links Regions & Availability Zones
Ability to scale up or down based on set conditions • Only works if you design your application to be “cloudy” • Can cause issues when performing load testing Autoscale
Application Fault Tolerance • Distribute load across multiple instances • Can add security groups to lock application access down at the network level • Many SSL options • Can be abused through the use of TCP pass-through
muscle • Great way to find problems in operational processes • Keeps DevSecOps on their toes • Find new failure modes • Netflix Chaos Monkey Resilience Testing (netflix.com, 2014)
to AWS CloudFormation • Restacker Configuration files are written in YAML • Files can be checked into version control • Can list, describe, deploy and remove CloudFormationstacks • restacker console will launch AWS CloudFormationweb console Introducing Restacker
data go when your instance dies? • AWS RDS is a fully managed database solution • Supports MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Aurora, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Persistent Data Using RDS