Facing the cloud’s storms

While AWS offers an environment that is generally regarded to offer high availability, security, and scalability compared to typical on-premise environments, it is up to you as the builder to design your architecture in a way that effectively makes use of necessary features to build an environment that can withstand unforeseen incidents that affect your application environment.

AWS offers a secure, scalable, and resilient environment for you to run your workloads. AWS has Regions all over the globe, with each Region having multiple Availability Zones (AZs) within. An AWS Region is a distinct geographical area where AWS clusters its data centers. Each Region is completely independent and isolated from other Regions, providing fault tolerance and high availability. They allow you to deploy your applications and store your data closer to your users for reduced latency and improved performance. In a Region, an AWS AZ is an isolated location that is shielded...