Achieving Scalability on AWS Cloud
Sanjoy Kumar Malik .
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If you are working on achieving scalability of your application on AWS Cloud, focus on the below important areas.
Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs)
AWS Auto Scaling allows you to automatically adjust the number of Amazon EC2 instances in your application based on traffic or other metrics. Create Auto Scaling Groups to ensure that your application can handle increased load without manual intervention.
The size of an Auto Scaling group depends on the number of instances that you set as the desired capacity. You can adjust its size to meet demand, either manually or by using automatic scaling.
An Auto Scaling group starts by launching enough instances to meet its desired capacity. It maintains this number of instances by performing periodic health checks on the instances in the group. The Auto Scaling group continues to maintain a fixed number of instances even if an instance becomes unhealthy.
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes your incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses, in one or more Availability Zones. It monitors the health of its registered targets, and routes traffic only to the healthy targets. Elastic Load Balancing scales your load balancer capacity automatically in response to changes in incoming traffic.
Elastic Load Balancing supports the following types of load balancers:
Amazon RDS Read Replicas
Amazon RDS Read Replicas can significantly improve database scalability.
Amazon RDS Read Replicas provide enhanced performance and durability for Amazon RDS database (DB) instances. They make it easy to elastically scale out beyond the capacity constraints of a single DB instance for read-heavy database workloads. You can create one or more replicas of a given source DB Instance and serve high-volume application read traffic from multiple copies of your data, thereby increasing aggregate read throughput.
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Amazon Aurora Multi-Master
For even greater database scalability and high availability, consider using Amazon Aurora with multi-master capability, which allows multiple write nodes.
AWS Lambda for Serverless Scalability
AWS Lambda provides a serverless compute service that can scale from a single request to hundreds of thousands per second. When designing your application, especially for high load, it helps to understand how Lambda handles scaling and throughput. There are two components to consider: concurrency and transactions/requests per second.
Amazon ECS and EKS for Container Scalability
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) allow you to manage containerized applications at scale. They can automatically scale the number of containers based on demand.
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Amazon S3 for Static Assets
Store static assets (e.g., images, videos, and files) in Amazon S3, a highly scalable object storage service. Enable Amazon CloudFront for content delivery to reduce latency.
When you serve static content that is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the recommended approach is to use an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket as the origin and use Amazon CloudFront to distribute the content.
AWS Lambda with API Gateway
Combine AWS Lambda with Amazon API Gateway to create serverless RESTful APIs. Lambda scales automatically, and API Gateway handles the API management and scaling. Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
Amazon SQS and SNS for Asynchronous Processing
Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) for decoupling components and enabling asynchronous processing. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) can help distribute events to multiple consumers.
Amazon DynamoDB
For NoSQL database needs, Amazon DynamoDB provides automatic scaling based on capacity and can handle high read and write traffic with low latency.
Amazon DynamoDB auto scaling uses the AWS Application Auto Scaling service to dynamically adjust provisioned throughput capacity on your behalf, in response to actual traffic patterns. This enables a table or a global secondary index to increase its provisioned read and write capacity to handle sudden increases in traffic, without throttling. When the workload decreases, Application Auto Scaling decreases the throughput so that you don't pay for unused provisioned capacity.
AWS App Runner
AWS App Runner automatically scales compute resources, specifically instances, up or down for your App Runner application. Automatic scaling provides adequate request handling when traffic is heavy, and reduces your cost when traffic slows down. You can configure a few parameters to adjust auto scaling behavior for your service.
AWS Lambda@Edge
Lambda@Edge scales automatically, from a few requests per day to thousands per second. Processing requests at AWS locations closer to the viewer instead of on origin servers significantly reduces latency and improves the user experience.
ElastiCache for Caching
Amazon ElastiCache provides fully managed in-memory caching for your applications. Use it to cache frequently accessed data, reducing the load on your database. By using Amazon ElastiCache you can scale to meet current demand, paying only for what you use. ElastiCache enables you to scale your cache to match demand.
AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions automatically scales the operations and underlying compute to run the steps of your application for you in response to changing workloads. Step Functions scales automatically to help ensure the performance of your application workflow remains consistent as the frequency of requests increases.
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AWS Auto Scaling Policies
Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Auto Scaling Policies are two AWS services that can be used together to automatically scale your applications. Together, CloudWatch and Auto Scaling can help you to ensure that your applications have the resources they need to handle demand, while also avoiding over-provisioning resources and wasting money.
Conclusion
Remember that the choice of architectural patterns and AWS services depends on your specific application's requirements, and a well-architected AWS environment considers factors such as security, availability, and cost in addition to scalability. AWS also provides the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which offers best practices and guidance for building scalable and reliable applications on the AWS Cloud.
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