Week 2 Introduction - Week 2: Optimize and Scale Your App for High Availability | Coursera

Week 2 Introduction

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Hosting Simple Web Applications using Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Web Services

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As a freelance developer, you are regularly building various software solutions for your customers. Recently, you received a request to create a pet adoption app on AWS. Because of a tight deadline and limited budget, you need to find a hosting platform that would satisfy all customer requirements without having a lot of setup and operations overhead. You evaluate different AWS services and decide on Amazon Lightsail to meet your use case. With Lightsail, you’ll be able to build and deploy an instance to host an app and then gradually add features to enhance app functionality.

Skills You'll Learn

lamp (software bundle), Application Hosting, Content Delivery Network, Object Storage, Amazon Lightsail

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Week 2: Optimize and Scale Your App for High Availability

Welcome to week 2 of Hosting Simple Web Applications Using Amazon Lightsail! The content for this week covers technical concepts and step-by-step instructions that are designed to help you scale and optimize an application in the AWS Cloud. This week, you will explore how to reduce latency delays with a content delivery network (CDN). You will also spread the incoming traffic between multiple application instances by setting up a load balancer. Then, you will create a Domain Name System (DNS) zone and generate the SSL/TLS certificate for a load balancer. By the end of the week, you will prepare a highly available application that receives traffic over HTTPS, a secure protocol.

Week 2 Introduction2:05

Create a Content Distribution Network for Pet Images6:45

Add a Load Balancer To Create a Highly Available App5:23

Taught By

Oksana Hoeckele
Cloud Technologist

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