aws design principles faq

Bookmarks Scalability Disposable Resources Instead of Fixed Servers Automation Loose Coupling Services Not Servers Databases Managing Increasing Volumes of Data Removing Single Points of Failure Optimize for Cost Caching Security Cloud Architecture Best Practices 1. Scalability Scaling Horizontally - an increase in the number of resources Scaling Vertically -  an increase in the specifications of an individual resource 2. Disposable Resources Instead of Fixed Servers Instantiating Compute Resources - automate setting up of new resources along with their configuration and code Infrastructure as Code - [...]