Exam Essentials
Understand the importance of resource isolation for cloud deployments. Properly placing your cloud resources within the right region and Availability Zone—along with carefully setting appropriate access controls—can improve both application security and performance.
Understand the role of autoscaling in a highly available deployment. The scalability of AWS resources means you can automate the process of increasing or decreasing the scale of a deployment based on need. This can automate application recovery after a crash.
Understand the role of load balancing in a highly available deployment. The ability to automatically redirect incoming requests away from a nonfunctioning instance and to a backup replacement is managed by a load balancer.
Understand the principles of the AWS Shared Responsibility Model. AWS handles security and administration for its underlying physical infrastructure and for the full stack of all its managed services, while customers are...
