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Reliability with resiliency

Reliability with resiliency

- [Instructor] Trying to achieve reliability for our applications in the cloud requires us to start with the foundational aspects of what the cloud provides us. Networking, compute, and storage. Those are the three main components where everything is made from. So trying to understand the resiliency needs of your design for what you're hosting in the cloud is pretty important. The application stack is going to be made up of many services. These are services that might be installed on the EC2 instance, and hopefully a lot of services that are managed services that by themselves are a functioning entity with resiliency and reliability built in as well. Any component that you add into your stack, there'll be availability requirements that you're expecting from that particular component. You might think, "Well, I want us here 100% of the time," but we know that everything does fail, and every service that Amazon offers will have a certain level of reliability. If we look at the compute…

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