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Module 10 Summary
William Anderson
Delgado Community College
CNET 294: Cloud Architecture
Professor Alex McMillen
October 27, 2024
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Module 10 Summary
This module talks about scaling compute resources and databases in AWS. Ec2 auto
scaling manages groups of instances called auto scaling groups. You can adjust the size of the
group with schedule actions, dynamic policies, or predictive policies. It also mentions auto
scaling for other services outside of EC2.
For databases, aurora RDS and dynamoDB are discussed. Aurora scales vertically by
changing instance sizes and horizontally by adding read replicas. Aurora serverless does this
automatically based on what's needed. Rds can scale by changing instance sizes or adding read
replicas too. Dynamodb scales by adjusting read and write capacities.
The module also explains load balancers and how they help keep systems available.
Elastic load balancers spread traffic across multiple instances but only send it to healthy ones.
There's different types like application network and gateway load balancers. Each works at a
different layer of the OSI model and has different functions.
It also covers how route 53 is used to keep things running with little downtime, helping to
create a reliable environment.