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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 2. Designing Cloud Applications FREE CHAPTER 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

Defining scalability objectives

Achieving scalability requires the underlying application architecture to be scalable in order to fully leverage the highly scalable infrastructure services provided by AWS cloud.

Setting scalability objectives for an application will depend on many factors, such as the nature of the application, the number of users (peak and average), the growth rate, the business model (subscription based, free, paid, or freemium model), SLAs, the nature of customers (businesses or the general public), and so on. It is very important to set some scalability objectives, however, as operating on the cloud doesn't require you to be absolutely accurate about hard-to-estimate parameters. On the cloud, you can always respond quickly to your rapidly evolving business. So, while it is good to have sufficient information to guide you initially, you don't need...

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