Hands-on Labs & Final Challenge

Scenario:

SecureCart’s engineering team must implement a scalable, elastic, and cost-efficient AWS compute architecture.

Final Study Group Challenges:

✅ Scenario 1: Choose & Deploy the Best Compute Option for a High-Traffic Application ✅ Scenario 2: Implement Auto Scaling for a Compute-Intensive Workload ✅ Scenario 3: Decouple Services Using SQS & EventBridge for Better Performance ✅ Scenario 4: Deploy a Containerized Microservice Using AWS Fargate ✅ Scenario 5: Optimize Compute Costs Using Spot Instances & Compute Savings Plans

🔹 Outcome: Learners demonstrate AWS best practices for scalable compute architectures.

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📚 Recommended Study Resources

✅ AWS Well-Architected Framework – Performance Efficiency Pillar ✅ AWS Auto Scaling Best Practices ✅ AWS Compute Optimizer & Cost Management Guide ✅ Amazon ECS vs. EKS vs. Lambda Decision Guide ✅ AWS Step Functions & Event-Driven Compute Whitepapers