In this course, we see how to assemble many powerful AWS components into a resilient, highly available web application with no single point of failure.


Distributed Systems and AWS 24m 1s
Introduction 1m 12s
What are distributed systems? 2m 9s
Characteristics of distributed systems 3m 0s
Distributed web systems in the cloud 3m 13s
Making distributed cloud systems highly available 3m 49s
AWS service portfolio 2m 6s
Reference solution for this course 2m 7s
Reference architecture for this course 1m 13s
Goals for this course 1m 57s
Resources 43s
Summary 2m 32s
Provisioning Durable Storage with EBS and S3 34m 49s
Introduction 1m 9s
Where we are in the reference architecture 26s
Types of VM storage 1m 32s
What type to use in a distributed cloud system? 3m 13s
About Amazon EBS 2m 18s
Creating and configuring EBS volumes 2m 4s
How is EBS failure handled? 2m 23s
EBS best practices 2m 32s
About Amazon S3 2m 54s
Creating and loading S3 buckets 3m 3s
DEMO: Creating and loading S3 buckets 7m 16s
How is failure handled? 37s
S3 best practices 2m 40s
Summary 2m 42s
Setting Up Databases in RDS and DynamoDB 47m 56s
Introduction 1m 18s
Where we are in the reference architecture 21s
The role of databases in distributed cloud systems 3m 0s
About Amazon RDS 3m 55s
Creating and accessing RDS databases 1m 21s
Using RDS with ASP.NET applications 2m 32s
DEMO: Creating an RDS database 5m 35s
DEMO: Creating an RDS Read Replica 1m 56s
DEMO: Pointing to RDS databases from ASP.NET 2m 55s
How is Failure Handled? 2m 12s
DEMO: Testing RDS failover capabilities 3m 2s
RDS best practices 2m 45s
About Amazon DynamoDB 3m 3s
Creating and using DynamoDB databases 1m 3s
Adding a shopping cart to DynamoDB 1m 3s
Using DynamoDB as a session state provider 1m 58s
DEMO: Using DynamoDB as a session state provider 5m 25s
How is failure handled? 27s
DynamoDB best practices 1m 49s
Summary 2m 16s
Leveraging SQS for Scalable Processing 26m 35s
Introduction 50s
Where we are in the reference architecture 40s
The role of queues in distributed cloud systems 2m 31s
About Amazon SQS 3m 1s
Configuring SQS 1m 51s
DEMO: Configuring SQS 2m 56s
Publishing to, retrieving from a queue 1m 56s
DEMO: Publishing to, retrieving from a queue 7m 19s
How is failure handled? 1m 10s
SQS best practices 2m 31s
Summary 1m 50s
Adding EC2 Virtual Machines 49m 4s
Introduction 1m 21s
Where we are in the reference architecture 30s
The role of virtual machines in a distributed cloud system 1m 42s
About Amazon EC2 4m 20s
Deploying EC2 servers 1m 53s
DEMO: Creating the IAM role 3m 20s
DEMO: Creating the servers 4m 39s
DEMO: Connecting to servers 2m 17s
Accessing shared content 1m 28s
Deploying web applications 1m 13s
DEMO: Deploying the web application 5m 55s
DEMO: Deploying the queue application 2m 46s
Creating and using AMIs 1m 25s
DEMO: Creating and using AMIs 3m 19s
EC2 best practices 2m 59s
Using Elastic IPs 2m 18s
How is failure handled? 30s
DEMO: Using Elastic IPs 2m 48s
Elastic IP best practices 2m 33s
Summary 1m 48s
Using ELB to Scale Applications 18m 23s
Introduction49s
Where we are in the reference architecture 23s
The role of load balancers in a distributed cloud system 2m 17s
About Amazon Elastic Load Balancing 2m 44s
How is failure handled? 43s
Configuring ELB 1m 44s
DEMO: Configuring ELB 5m 8s
Testing ELB 1m 36s
ELB best practices 1m 26s
Summary 1m 33s
Enabling Auto Scale to Handle Spikes and Troughs 22m 53s
Introduction 46s
Where we are in the reference architecture 6s
The role of automated scaling in a distributed cloud system 2m 27s
About Auto Scaling 2m 40s
How is failure handled? 50s
Configuring Auto Scaling 2m 36s
DEMO: Configuring Auto Scaling 5m 38s
Testing Auto Scaling 1m 23s
DEMO: Testing Auto Scaling 2m 24s
Auto Scaling Best Practices 2m 13s
Summary 1m 30s
Configuring DNS with Route 53 17m 54s
Introduction 54s
Where we are in the reference architecture 38s
The role of DNS in a distributed cloud system 2m 0s
About Route 53 3m 22s
Using Route 53 with ELB, CloudFront, S3 1m 22s
How is failure handled? 35s
Configuring Route 53 2m 12s
DEMO: Configuring Route 53 3m 44s
Route 53 Best Practices 1m 46s
Summary 1m 21s