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Adrian Cantrill’s SAA-C02 study course, 60 minutes: HA & Scaling section: ELB part 2 Elastic Load Balancer Architecture – Part 2 For this lesson, we looked at Load Balancing in a mutli-tiered organization. We looked at a specific scenario that started with a VPC and two availability zones inside the VPC. From there we addedContinue reading “Sunday 12/19/21 Cloud Studies Update: AWS ELB part 2”

Adrian Cantrill’s SAA-C02 course, 50 minutes: Elastic Load Balancer Architecture (part 1) This lesson focused on the high level logical and physical architecture of Elastic Load Balancer. Load balancers are explained herein as accepting connections from customers, and then distributing those connections across any registered backend compute. It means the user is abstracted away fromContinue reading “Saturday 12/18/21 Cloud Studies Update: AWS ELB architecture (part 1)”

Adrian Cantrill’s SAA-C02 study course, 60 minutes: AWS HA & Scaling section: ‘Regional and Global AWS Architecuture’, ‘Evolution of the Elastic Load Balancer’ Regional and Global AWS Architecture The lesson started with a look at global applications, with an emphasis on Netflix. It was explained that Netflix is a global application, but it’s also aContinue reading “Friday 12/17/21 Cloud Studies Update: AWS HA & Scaling”

Adrian Cantrill’s SAA-C02 study course, 70 minutes: [DEMO] Using EFS with WordPress This demo lesson contained three main components: 1. We were going to deploy some infrastructure using one-click deployments 2. We walked through the CFN template to explore how the architecture was built 3. We would be able to see the benefits that EFSContinue reading “Thursday 12/16/21 Cloud studies update: AWS EFS”

Adrian Cantrill’s SAA-C02 study course, 50 minutes: [Demo] ‘Implementing EFS’ parts 1 & 2 [DEMO] Implementing EFS Part 1 This demo focused on interacting with EFS on its own to get some hands-on experience working with EFS. To start with, we verified that we were logged into the N. Virginia region, and then clicked onContinue reading “Wednesday 12/15/21 Cloud Studies Update: AWS EFS”

Adrian Cantrill’s SAA-C02 study course, 50 minutes: Network Storage section: ‘EFS Architecture’ Elastic File System This product provides network based file systems which can be mounted within Linux EC2 instances and used by multiple instances at once. The way we were looking to apply this in our upcoming demo would be to store the mediaContinue reading “Tuesday 12/14/21 Cloud Studies update: AWS Network Storage”

Adrian Cantrill’s SAA-C02 study course, 35 minutes: RDS section review RDS section Review: Database Refresher and Models part 1: – Structured Query Language – Structure in & between tables of data – rigid Schema – Relationships between tables – NoSQL: Not one single thing… different models – generally a much more relaxed Schema – RelationshipsContinue reading “Saturday 12/11/21 Cloud Studies update: RDS section review”

Adrian Cantrill’s SAA-C02 study course, 50 minutes: RDS section: ‘DMS’ Database Migration Service: Extensively used in the database arena. Database migrations are complex things to perform. If you exclude the vendor tooling which is available, it’s a manual process end to end. It usually involves setting up replication, which is pretty complex, or taking aContinue reading “Wednesday 12/8/21 Cloud Studies Update: RDS DMS”

Adrian Cantrill’s SAA-C02 study course, 60 minutes: Aurora Global Database & Multi-Master Writes Aurora Global Database: Allows to create global level replication using Aurora from a master region to up to five secondary AWS regions. Global databases introduce the idea of secondary regions, which can have up to 16 read only replicas. The replication fromContinue reading “Monday 12/6/21 Cloud study update: AWS Aurora Global Database”

Adrian Cantrill’s SAA-C02 study course, 60 minutes: RDS section: [DEMO] ‘Migrating to Aurora Serverless’ Migrating to Aurora Serverless: This demo focused on migrating a snapshot from Aurora running in provisioned mode to Aurora running in Serverless mode. To start the process we logged into our general AWS account, verified that we were situated in theContinue reading “Saturday 12/4/21 Cloud Studies Update: Migrating to Aurora Serverless”