Building Resilient Workloads on AWS: Tools and Techniques

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Covers AWS services and features for designing highly available, fault-tolerant applications by applying resilience best practices. Discusses handling server failures, network issues, and disaster scenarios using AWS tools (e.g., multi-AZ/region deployments, load balancing, auto scaling, backups and replication) and demonstrates how to implement those techniques in workloads.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:19Session overview
3. 3:16Business impact of (non)-resilience
4. 3:51Categories of Failure
5. 6:59Shared responsibility model for resilience
6. 8:42Example: Amazon EC2
7. 10:35Control planes and data planes
8. 11:30Question 2
9. 13:03Real life example: Dependencies on EC2
10. 17:18Static stability approaches
11. 18:14Static stability example
12. 24:05Multi-zonal high availability
13. 27:40IAM control plane and data plane
14. 28:54Avoid control plane actions for recovery
15. 29:40Amazon Route 53 best practices
16. 31:00Amazon CloudFront best practices
17. 32:46Key takeaways

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