AWS for DevOps: Performance Optimization Best Practices

1h 19mAdvanced2019-12-10

Authors

Carlos Rivas

AWS Infrastructure Expert

Course details

Performance optimization is critical to the success of your business application. It's also a balance between cost, speed, and resources. In this course, instructor Carlos Rivas shares tips and tricks for optimizing performance as an AWS DevOps engineer. Carlos explains how to measure your application's current performance and effectively optimize through traffic, compute (EC2), and storage services. Learn how to visualize metrics using CloudWatch, choose the right EC2 instance for your workload, optimize network traffic using VPC endpoints, and more.

Learning objectives
Load testing your website
Choosing the right EC2 instance
Use cases for Spot Instances
Optimizing network traffic using VPC endpoints
Using placement groups
Choosing the right cloud storage for your performance needs
Indexing DynamoDB

Skills covered

DevOps FoundationsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonDevOpsCloud ServicesCloud PlatformsCloud ComputingDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Tips and tricks for AWS DevOps
02 - What you should know
03 - Overview

1. Measuring Performance

04 - Load testing your website
05 - Visualizing metrics in CloudWatch
06 - Challenge - Benchmarking databases
07 - Solution - Benchmarking databases

2. Optimizing Compute Resources

08 - Choosing the right EC2 instance
09 - Use cases for Spot Instances
10 - High performance computing
11 - Challenge - Auto Scaling patterns
12 - Solution - Auto Scaling patterns

3. Network Traffic Optimizations

13 - VPC endpoints
14 - Placement groups
15 - Network packet size
16 - Challenge - Measuring network performance
17 - Solution - Measuring network performance

4. Storage

18 - Choosing the right cloud storage
19 - Indexing DynamoDB
20 - Challenge - File sharing
21 - Solution - File sharing

Conclusion

22 - Next steps