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Building Resilient Architectures on AWS

Building Resilient Architectures on AWS: A practical guide to architecting cost-efficient, resilient solutions in AWS

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Building Resilient Architectures on AWS

Understanding Resilience Concepts

Being able to build a fully resilient application environment is a daunting task for many of us. Simply defining what resilience even means varies based on several factors. For example, simply being able to quickly reboot a standalone server when an application is running out of memory might be considered as having a resilient environment if that is what you are looking for. However, when the term resilient is brought up, the typical expectation is that we are aiming to build an architecture that is resilient to all internal and external influencing factors and will exhibit high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability under all circumstances.

In this book, we will help provide clarity about resiliency, dive deep into what resilient architecture looks like, and explore the measures you can take to build a resilient design that serves the resilience goals you have set for your applications. The book will primarily focus on services and features...

Demystifying resilience

Resilient infrastructure architecture is a design that can withstand and recover from disruptions quickly. It is built on the principle of redundancy, with multiple layers of protection that can be activated in the event of a failure. This approach helps to ensure that critical systems are always available, even in the face of major disruptions.

One of the famous quotes from Werner Vogels (CTO, Amazon) is –

“Everything fails all the time.”

With time, failure is imminent. No matter how well you design your infrastructure, something is going to give up and fail at some point. The idea behind resiliency is to be intentional about understanding this reality and building systems that are able to recover from failures quickly without causing catastrophic business disruptions that cause huge financial impact.

The concept of resiliency is best understood when we examine the commercial aviation industry. Almost all parts and functions...

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...

The continuous resilience journey

The resilience lifecycle framework provided by AWS is a structured and iterative process designed to foster resilience at every stage of an application’s lifecycle. It encompasses a five-stage approach that addresses the entire spectrum, from planning and design to operation and continuous improvement. By adhering to this framework, organizations can construct and maintain highly resilient applications capable of withstanding disruptions and delivering value consistently, even in challenging circumstances.

Nevertheless, achieving resilience is not a one-time endeavor; rather, it is an ongoing process. Resilience constitutes a journey that necessitates continuous monitoring, refinement, and improvement. Tracking crucial metric parameters, such as SLAs, RTOs, and RPOs enables organizations to adopt a scientific approach to resilience goals. Furthermore, implementing processes such as Operational Readiness Reviews (ORRs) assists in identifying...

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the significance of resilience in building reliable and robust applications. We introduced the resilience lifecycle framework, developed by AWS to help organizations continuously improve the resilience of their applications.

We also highlighted the benefits of following the resilience lifecycle framework, including reduced risk of downtime and data loss, improved operational efficiency, enhanced customer experience, and increased confidence and trust.

To achieve resilience, organizations should view it as an ongoing process, continuously monitoring, tuning, and improving their resilience strategies. Tracking important metric parameters such as SLA, RTO, and RPO enables a scientific approach to resilience goals.

We explored the ORR process, a checklist of questions designed to help organizations identify and solve business problems related to resilience.

Finally, the chapter emphasized the importance of incorporating security measures...

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  • Transform chaos into reliability with real-world case studies and cutting-edge methods to design robust AWS architectures
  • Minimize downtime and protect business revenue through battle-tested architectural strategies
  • Implement scalable architecture solutions on AWS using proven patterns and best practices
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Building systems that can withstand failure is key to running a successful business on the cloud. Learn from distinguished AWS experts—Ajit, Imaya, and Rodrigue—who bring over four decades of experience in architecting enterprise-scale solutions, speaking at major AWS conferences, and implementing resilience strategies across diverse industries, as they guide you through building highly available and fault-tolerant applications on AWS. This book explores resiliency, offering steps to design, build, and operate resilient architectures on AWS. You’ll master data security practices, backup strategies, and automation techniques, helping you build strong defenses and reliable recovery plans for resilience against disruptions. You’ll also learn how to apply AWS Well-Architected pillars to design applications with redundancy, loose coupling, graceful degradation, and fault isolation. With architecture examples, you’ll validate your design’s effectiveness through resilient patterns, performance monitoring, and chaos engineering. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with best practices for creating robust cloud infrastructures to ensure business continuity and success and become proficient at creating fault-tolerant systems, optimizing performance, and ensuring reliability across regions.

Who is this book for?

The book is for developers, architects, site reliability engineers, and IT managers who use cloud services for their workloads. It is particularly valuable for those using AWS to develop, deploy, and operate their applications. Prior knowledge of public cloud, architecting highly available infrastructure and applications, software development, deployment, and DevOps practices is assumed.

What you will learn

  • Master the key concepts and principles of building resilience in the cloud
  • Architect modern applications using serverless and containers following best practices
  • Use the AWS Well-Architected Framework to build durable architectures
  • Anticipate operational events with chaos engineering techniques
  • Understand when and how to use multi-region and cell-based architectures
  • Attain highly efficient and reliable workload architectures on AWS
  • Navigate the collaborative approach of the AWS Shared Responsibility

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Table of Contents

20 Chapters
Part 1: Setting the Stage – Learning the Basics of Designing Resilient Architectures Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Understanding Resilience Concepts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Implementing Resilient Compute and Auto Scaling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Securing and Backing Up Critical Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Orchestrating Graceful Degradation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Exploring the AWS Shared Responsibility Model Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2: Building Resilient Cloud Architectures on AWS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Learning AWS Well-Architected Principles for Resiliency Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Architecting Fault-Tolerant Applications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Resiliency Considerations for Serverless Applications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Using Containers to Improve Resiliency Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Resilient Architectures Across Regions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 3: Validating Your Architecture for Resiliency Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Examples of Resilient Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: Observability, Auditing, and Continuous Improvement Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 13: Performing Chaos Engineering Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 14: Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 15: Finalize Building Resilient Architecture Using AWS Resilience Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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