Quiz: What is the core architectural difference between Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS?
SQS queues messages for worker polling (point-to-point); SNS broadcasts messages to multiple subscribing endpoints (fan-out push model).
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SQS queues messages for worker polling (point-to-point); SNS broadcasts messages to multiple subscribing endpoints (fan-out push model).
An Application Load Balancer (ALB) makes intelligent routing decisions at Layer 7 (HTTP headers, URL paths); a Network Load Balancer (NLB) routes at Layer 4 (ultra-low latency TCP/UDP).
An Auto Scaling Group dynamically adjusts instance count to maintain steady performance during traffic spikes and reduce costs during quiet periods.
AWS Fargate lets you run Docker containers without having to provision, configure, patch, or scale virtual machine clusters yourself.
… stateless architectures , state is stored in centralized datastores/caches, allowing individual application nodes to be freely added or removed without disrupting users.
An Active-Active Multi-Region setup distributes user traffic across multiple live cloud regions simultaneously, providing near-zero downtime even if an entire region fails.
Prometheus acts as the time-series metric collector and alerting engine, while Grafana provides rich visualization dashboards.
Blue/Green deployments minimize downtime and risk by spinning up the new release alongside the current version and flipping traffic at the router once validated.