A global e-commerce firm wants to improve performance and reduce latency for static and dynamic web app content hosted on EC2 and S3 with a custom domain. The drill weighs CloudFront and Global Accelerator options to guide the best practical solution.
This SAP-C02 scenario explores converting a brittle single-instance application stack into a resilient architecture using Multi-AZ RDS, ElastiCache replication, and Auto Scaling—analyzing the FinOps impact and decision logic behind each component choice.
A healthcare SaaS company needs to eliminate hardcoded credentials on EC2 instances connecting to Aurora. We analyze four approaches through the lens of operational overhead, security posture, and FinOps impact—revealing why native secret rotation beats encryption-at-rest solutions.
Explore the critical differences between SQS Standard, SQS FIFO, and SNS for order processing scenarios. Learn why FIFO queues are essential for sequencing guarantees and how to avoid common distributed systems pitfalls.
A professional-level analysis of automated failover strategies for multi-region applications, comparing Route 53 failover policies, Lambda-driven orchestration, and Global Accelerator approaches while balancing RTO requirements against budget constraints.
Analyzing how to extend on-premises SMB file storage to AWS while maintaining low-latency access to recent files and implementing automated lifecycle management to control growing storage costs.
Modernizing a legacy master-worker application requires eliminating single points of failure. This drill explores why queue-based decoupling with demand-driven autoscaling beats scheduled scaling and monolithic coordination patterns.
Explore the best approach to ingest large quantities of unstructured data for ETL processing on Google Cloud, focusing on service suitability and operational ease.