Percent of Exam 15%
Domain Focus Areas
- Demonstrate the ability to design a loosely coupled system
- Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate front-end scaling architecture
- Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate middle-tier scaling architecture
- Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate data storage scaling architecture
- Determine trade-offs between vertical and horizontal scaling
AWS Services
- CloudFront
- Elasticache
- Kinesis Streams
- SNS and Mobile Push
- ELB
AWS Documentation
- Performance at Scale with Amazon ElastiCache
- https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/performance-at-scale-with-amazon-elasticache.pdf
- ELB FAQ
- https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/faqs/
- CloudFront FAQ
- https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/faqs/
- ElastiCache FAQ
- https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/faqs/
- Kinesis Streams FAQ
- https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/streams/faqs/
- SNS FAQ
- http://aws.amazon.com/sns/faqs/
AWS Presentations
- Using Amazon CloudFront For Your Websites & Apps
- https://youtu.be/gUAuhdtHacI
- Best Practices for Content Delivery using Amazon CloudFront
- https://youtu.be/s9Xt1qzD6SA
- Secure Content Delivery Using Amazon CloudFront
- https://youtu.be/eorGJL-LkJc
- SSL with Amazon Web Services
- https://youtu.be/8AODa_AazY4
- Elastic Load Balancing Deep Dive and Best Practices
- https://youtu.be/91TAx4fmcxk
- Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users
- https://youtu.be/vg5onp8TU6Q
- Scaling Infrastructure Operations with AWS
- https://youtu.be/bSa_byGRGR4
- All You Need To Know About Auto Scaling
- https://youtu.be/4trGuelatMI
- Introduction to Amazon Kinesis
- https://youtu.be/FxCF34txNfk
- Streaming Data Processing with Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda
- https://youtu.be/XFHtsUgH-L8
- Building Real-time Streaming Applications with Amazon Kinesis
- https://youtu.be/JFfvD2cw2IE
- Amazon Kinesis Deep Dive
- https://youtu.be/8u9wIC1xNt8
- Amazon ElastiCache: Deep Dive
- https://youtu.be/4VfIINg9DYI
- A Technical Introduction to Amazon Elastic MapReduce
- https://youtu.be/WnFYoiRqEHw
- EMR Masterclass
- https://youtu.be/zc1_Rfb_txQ
- EMR Deep Dive and Best Practices
- https://youtu.be/4HseALaLllc
3rd Party Docs
3rd Party Presentations
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