Hands-on Labs & Final Challenge

Scenario:

SecureCart’s security team must audit and implement high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies across all AWS services.

Final Study Group Challenges:

✅ Scenario 1: Deploy Multi-AZ RDS & Use Amazon RDS Proxy for Failover ✅ Scenario 2: Configure Route 53 Failover Routing for Multi-Region Traffic Management ✅ Scenario 3: Automate Infrastructure Recovery Using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery ✅ Scenario 4: Implement Load Balancing & Auto Scaling for Traffic Surge Handling ✅ Scenario 5: Use AWS X-Ray to Monitor Application Performance

🔹 Outcome: Learners demonstrate AWS best practices for high availability, disaster recovery, and monitoring.

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📚 Recommended Study Resources

✅ AWS Well-Architected Framework – Reliability Pillar ✅ AWS Disaster Recovery Strategies Whitepaper ✅ AWS Auto Scaling & Load Balancing Best Practices ✅ AWS Health Monitoring & Incident Response ✅ AWS X-Ray & CloudWatch for Observability