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Amazon Web Services – Building Fault-Tolerant Applications on AWS October 2011 Building Fault-Tolerant Applications on AWS October 2011 Jeff Barr, Attila Narin, and Jinesh Varia 1 Amazon Web Services – Building Fault-Tolerant Applications on AWS October 2011 Contents Introduction 3 Failures Shouldn’t be THAT Interesting 3 Amazon Machine Images 4 Elastic Block Store 6 Elastic IP Addresses 6 Failures Can Be Useful 7 Auto Scaling 8 Elastic Load Balancing 9 Regions and Availability Zones 9 Building Multi-AZ Architectures to Achieve High Availability 10 Reserved Instances 11 Fault-Tolerant Building Blocks 12 Amazon Simple Queue Service 12 Amazon Simple Storage Service 13 Amazon SimpleDB 13 Amazon Relational Database Service 13 Conclusion 14 Further Reading 15 2 Amazon Web Services – Building Fault-Tolerant Applications on AWS October 2011 Introduction Software has become a vital aspect of everyday life in nearly every part of the world. No matter where we are, we interact with software–whether that is by using our mobile phone, withdrawing money from an automated bank machine, or even by just stopping at a traffic light. Because software has become such an integral part of our daily lives, a great deal of work has to be done to ensure that this software remains operational and available. Generally speaking, this area of study is known as fault -tolerance, the ability for a system to remain in operation even if some of the components used to build the system fail. Although it’s true that essential systems must be available at all times, we also expect a much wider range of so