Chapter 14. Achieving high availability: availability zones, auto-scaling, and CloudWatch
This chapter covers
- Using a CloudWatch alarm to recover a failed virtual machine
- Understanding availability zones in an AWS region
- Using auto-scaling to guarantee your VMs keep running
- Analyzing disaster-recovery requirements
Imagine you run a web shop. During the night, the hardware running your virtual machine fails. Until the next morning when you go into work, your users can no longer access your web shop. During the 8-hour downtime, your users search for an alternative and stop buying from you. That’s a disaster for any business. Now imagine a highly available web shop. Just a few minutes after the hardware failed, the system recovers, restarts ...
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