When faced with extreme message volume spikes (100K msg/sec) and dozens of independent consumers, choosing between SNS+SQS fan-out, Kinesis streams, and autoscaling patterns determines both scalability and cost efficiency.
A 70TB NFS migration scenario that tests your understanding of AWS data transfer services, bandwidth constraints, and the critical trade-off between migration speed and network utilization. Learn why physical data transfer devices trump internet-based solutions at scale.
When scaling a stateful web application across multiple Availability Zones, local EBS storage creates data silos. This drill explores the architectural decision between EBS replication, session affinity, and shared file systems like Amazon EFS.
A cloud application running on EC2 instances inside a VPC needs to privately access logs stored in Amazon S3 without internet connectivity. This drill explores how to securely enable S3 access by evaluating different AWS solution options.
A fintech startup needs to query JSON logs in S3 with minimal operational overhead and no infrastructure changes. This drill explores why serverless query engines beat traditional data warehouses for ad-hoc analytics workloads.
Analyze the decision logic behind choosing S3 Transfer Acceleration over multi-region replication strategies for global data ingestion workloads with high-speed connectivity.