You only can control, what you measure! So CloudWatch is a possibility for monitoring your resources and applications running on AWS by collecting and tracking standard and custom metrics, like log files. If the defined alarm state is achieved, CloudWatch Alarm sends via SNS e.g. a email notification to the ops team, automatically EC2 starts […]
Fleetmanagement, EC2 Auto Scaling. The idea of EC2 Auto Scaling groups is to ensure automated the required compute capacity. Auto Scaling independently detect if a failure occurs in one or more instances and an automated replacement takes place. The Maximum, Minimum and the Desired capacity will defined initially e.g. via the Management Console. If for […]
Elastic Load Balancer: Application/ Network Automatic distribute traffic across multiple targets. The example shows how to use Load Balancer for Network and Application use cases. The service provides log files to CloudWatch for measurement and monitoring purposes. The service stops sending traffic to a non responding instance, so it’s also a good tool for health […]
The topics before focused on how to build individual servers in the cloud, set up data volumes, network environments. Next is deploying database services, this is a whole architecture tier of an application! E.g. you can deploy a master and a standby DB in two regions in a „off the shelf way.“ In EC2 instance […]
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. The core functionality is register your domain names, route internet traffic to the resources for your domain, check the health of your resources. The main purpose is to have a component extremely reliable and cost optimized to route end users […]
AWS CloudFormation: Model and provision all your cloud infrastructure resources. AWS CloudFormation is a model and provision for all your cloud infrastructure resources used for automated deployment. Different environments like e.g. trainings environments or A/B-test environments are quick deployed. They are based only on a script (template in either YAML or JASON) load and fire […]
Putting all together. EFS Elastic File System, Route53 In the example above Route53 is resolving the domain names, the Amazon EFS Elastic File System is able to store files via Internet Gateway or via the virtual private gateway to connect via AWS Direct Connect the On premises Data Center to the cloud native datastore EFS. […]
Create thumbnails with Lambda. A good use case is media streaming and to make things faster. Therfore serverless functionality like Lambda provides support by serverless code, we call it Function as a Service (FaaS). E.g. to encode video data, transcode video or picture formats to multiple formats, like in this example above or to catalog […]
One key element between serverless components is messaging. Amazon SNS is a fully managed pub/sub messaging for distributed or serverless applications. There is the option from one to many messages to push out. E.g. a publisher places a message in a topic and all subscribers get a copy of the message. You can use the […]
CloudFront & ElastiCache for Redis The example shows the whole environment perhaps build by CloudFormation. Video data comes in by CloudFront from Video encoders and maybe the requested input is in CloudFront, it’s send back directly. If not it’s stored in S3, a Lambda function updates some metadata and it’s stored in Dynamo DB. The […]