Architecting Cloud Applications for High Availability

Damien Gallagher
AWS in Plain English
1 min readJun 30, 2023

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In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the demand for cloud computing continues to grow exponentially. As businesses increasingly rely on cloud-based solutions to store, process, and deliver their critical applications and services, ensuring high availability has become a paramount concern. Architecting cloud applications for high availability is a strategic approach that aims to minimize downtime, maximize system resilience, and maintain uninterrupted access to services. This entails designing and implementing robust architectures that can seamlessly handle failures, accommodate scalability requirements, and optimize performance. By adopting a high availability mindset and leveraging various cloud services and design principles, organizations can safeguard their applications against disruptions, enhance customer experience, and support continuous operations in the face of unforeseen challenges.

Below you will find a dissertation I wrote on Architecting Cloud Applications for High Availability. This dissertation focuses on using AWS for deploying applications. Topics such as DR, testing, databases, multi region deployments are covered in this dissertation. This dissertation achieved a 1:1 grade overall and was awarded a prize for being the best dissertation in the computing department in the college I attended.

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