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Decoupling tools

Decoupling tools - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Decoupling tools

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- [Instructor] It's been established that everything breaks all the time. Migrating away from a monolithic architecture towards microservices, will help you keep your applications functioning, in the event of a component failure. Let's examine some AWS tools you can use to help you decouple your applications. Consider a web store with a traditional architecture. To improve site availability, you've decided to maximize use of native AWS tools. To handle DNS queries, you've set up route 53. You've configured route 53, to point to an application load balancer, distributing traffic across your autoscaled web tier. You've set up the web tier to use an internal load balancer, referencing an autoscaled application tier. Finally, this application stores data in a big relational database. Apart from the single point of failure at the database tier, this architecture looks pretty good. Let's zoom in on the application tier.…

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