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Learning AWS

You're reading from   Learning AWS Design, build, and deploy responsive applications using AWS Cloud components

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281066
Length 412 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Amit Shah Amit Shah
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Aurobindo Sarkar Aurobindo Sarkar
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Cloud 101 – Understanding the Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Designing Cloud Applications 3. Introducing AWS Components 4. Designing for and Implementing Scalability 5. Designing for and Implementing High Availability 6. Designing for and Implementing Security 7. Deploying to Production and Going Live 8. Designing a Big Data Application 9. Implementing a Big Data Application 10. Deploying a Big Data System 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Evolving architecture against increasing loads

Auto scaling is not the single thing that fixes everything. In real life, you will probably evolve your architecture against an increasing number of users or load. In this section, we will suggest actions you can take at each stage of your growth starting from a handful of users right up to tens of millions of users for a typical web stack.

Scaling from one to half a million users

In the beginning, you can get started with a single EC2 instance that hosts your web service and the DB on the same instance. You can provision an EIP and use Route53 for DNS services. This should be sufficient to handle a typical website or service for a new business.

As your number of users increases...

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