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26 March 2014

Architecting on AWS - Day 3, Sydney

These are my notes from day 3 of the Amazon ‘Architecting on AWS’ course which was run in Sydney in March 2014. The trainer/presenter was John Rotenstein from AWS.

Simple Queue Service

  • Regionally based
  • Automatically replicated throughout AZs
  • Concept of dead letter queues
  • Eventually consistent
  • FIFO, kind of…
  • “Visibility Timeout” is the invisibility timeout
    • Can be overridden in code
  • Messages can be retained for up to 14 days
  • Messages are base64 encoded
  • Important for loosely coupled services

Simple Notification Service

  1. Publish a message
  2. Subscribers get the message
  • Email
  • HTTP/HTTPS
  • SMS (USA only)
  • SQS
  • Push to iOS and Android

  • SNS can be used to fan out messages. e.g. send same message to multiple SQS queues
  • You wouldn’t use SNS to email customers

  • 1 million free mobile push

Simple Workflow Service

  • Orchestration tool

  • Decider
    • Business logic
    • Decision logic
  • Activity workers do work assigned by the Decider

Simple Email Service

  • Bulk and transactional email service
  • No SPAM is allowed
  • SES not available in Australia

Cloud Search

  • Search engine for your web app
  • Runs as an instance
  • Auto scales
  • Managed Apache Solr

Migrating Applications

  • Whitepaper
  • Build a cloud strategy
    • New apps
      • Build as cloud ready
    • Existing apps
      • “No brainer”
      • Planned phase
  • Run a PoC
  • Engage AWS to help

  • Migrate your data
    • Riverbed
    • Aspera

Cloud benefits

  • Zero upfront costs (OPEX vs CAPEX)
  • On demand provisioning
  • Instant scalability
  • Business agility
  • Developer productivity
  • etc..

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