The module’s focus
This week, I returned to the exciting online learning on Amazon Web Services, where I looked at the AWS architecture module. The module’s focus was on the architectural considerations while one intends to deploy or migrate to the cloud. The module had coverage of the fundamentals of a solution to cloud migration, which is well architected. From the videos on AWS training, the concepts of a well-architected framework were quite interesting to me. I learned about the five pillars of such architecture: security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and operational excellence (Sequeira, 2019).
Another concept that was interesting to me is the concept of cloud security and its five areas. One of these areas is a cloud identity and Access Management, which the tutor called IAM. This ensures that there is no access to repositories by unauthorized or unauthenticated persons. The second area, according to my understanding, was the detective controls. These controls are essential in the identification of potential security incidents. Automatic recovery and test recovery procedures are some other concepts that I intuited from online learning (Basu et al., 2020).
From the learning, I learned about the concept of fault tolerance, where a fault tolerance system is a system with the ability to remain operational even when some of the system’s components fail, with the help of built-in redundancy of that system’s application components. A system’s high availability will ensure that the functions of that system are continuously operational and accessible all the time. This ensures the minimization of the system downtime, and the system requires minimal intervention from humans to keep functioning. The AWS services in the Architecture module work together by ensuring the five pillars to a well-designed architecture support each other to ensure the architecture brings about the best solution to the clients’ cloud-based applications.
References
Sequeira, A. J. (2019). AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Cert Guide. Pearson IT Certification.
Basu, K., Hamdullah, A., & Ball, F. (2020, June). The architecture of a Cloud-based Fault-Tolerant Control Platform for improving the QoS of Social Multimedia Applications on SD-WAN. In 2020 13th International Conference on Communications (COMM) (pp. 495-500). IEEE.
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I have read your post, and I liked it. When coming up with an architecture for use in the cloud, it is essential to consider some design principles that will ensure that your design is robust in terms of security. One of the regulations requires the application of security at all layers of your system. This ensures that infrastructure is secured everywhere and in every layer. Another critical design principle that one can use is the least privilege principle, which provides the appropriateness of the authorization process. Automating the response to both routine and abnormal security events is one of the best practices to ensure that your architecture is well protected.
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This is an excellent post. The Aws training that we resumed this week continued to be an excellent one. From the training, I could clearly understand the five pillars of the AWS architecture, which were the security pillar, which is used to identify and access management and controlling detectives. The pillar is responsible for protecting the overall protection of the architecture and the protection of data, not forgetting the incidence response. This pillar helps us protect our business values and information while delivering the business value by assessing risks. Did you notice that the tutors in different videos took time to explain each pillar in detail, ensuring that there was some ease in understanding every one of them?