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Understanding fault-tolerant components

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Understanding fault-tolerant components

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- [Illustrator] It's possible to create remarkably fault-tolerant and highly available applications using AWS. Let's look at some of the fundamental components you can use to design a robust resilient system. Let's start off by looking at data storage options. Possibly the most well known AWS storage offering is Simple Storage Service or S3. It is the object storage offering that helped put AWS on the map. Accessible from anywhere there is an internet connection, it is a core component to have in your toolkit. The next storage offering to be aware of is called Elastic Block Store or EBS. EBS is storage which is directly attached to an elastic compute cloud, or EC2 instance. Think of EBS as adding an additional hard drive to a single computer. If you run Linux machines and have a need for a networked file system, Elastic File System or EFS is one possible solution. As a managed file system, EFS can be set up such that…

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