AWS for Developers: ECS and Multi-Region Load Balancing

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Free Online Course: AWS for Developers: ECS and Multi-Region Load Balancing provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. AWS for Developers: ECS and Multi-Region Load Balancing is taught by Jeremy Villeneuve.

Overview
  • Scale across multiple AWS regions for high availability and faster response times. Learn how to set up multi-region load balancing with Amazon Route 53.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Why load balance across regions?
    • What you should know
    • Course outline
    1. DynamoDB Global Tables
    • Overview of DynamoDB
    • Creating a DynamoDB table
    • Availability Zones vs. Regions
    • DynamoDB cross-region replication
    • Creating a DynamoDB global table
    • Inserting records into DynamoDB
    2. Deploying Docker Containers with CodePipeline to ECS
    • Track code changes using CodeCommit
    • Storing Docker images with ECR
    • Create an ECS task definition
    • Create an ECS cluster
    • CI with Docker and CodeBuild
    • CD with ECS and CodeDeploy
    3. Load Balancing Within a Single Region
    • Overview of Application Load Balancer
    • ALB Listener Rules
    • Adding an SSL certificate to ALB
    • Health checks with ALB
    • Testing failover with ALB
    4. Scaling Across Regions with Route 53
    • Deploying across regions
    • Cross-region actions with CodePipeline
    • Load balancing with DNS
    • DNS routing with Route53
    • Location-based routing
    • Testing cross-region failover
    Conclusion
    • Next steps