Rollups A rollup is a collection of hot fixes. In some cases, the rollup might contain more than just security updates, but the main focus is to address a collection of security or critical issues with a single update. Patching Cloud Components Although many patches are designed to fix an issue with a product, some […]

Schedule-Triggered Flows allow you to automate processes and perform actions on a scheduled basis. Unlike other types of flows that are triggered by user interactions or record changes, schedule-triggered flows are initiated based on a predefined schedule, such as a specific date and time or a recurring interval. They are especially useful for automating repetitive […]

Generation – Monitoring All Components of Your Workload This may sound obvious, but it is essential to monitor all the components of your workload without exception, using either Amazon CloudWatch or third-party solutions if you prefer. From the frontend to the backend and the storage or database layer, you should make sure to collect the […]

Slow Start To prevent a new target from being overwhelmed with connection requests when it is first brought online, there is a slow start feature that allows the server to gradually process new requests after the new target passes its health checking and comes online. This gives the server time to “warm up.” The ELB […]

Why Choose an S3 Bucket over CloudWatch Logs? When enabling your VPC Flow Logs to capture the traffic, you have an immediate choice of where to store the logs. The industry that your organization is in, along with the types of compliance regulations you need to follow, should play a part in this decision. There […]

Regression modeling on AWS AWS has a built-in algorithm known as linear learner, where you can implement linear regression models. The built-in linear learner uses Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) to train the model. Important note You will learn more about SGD when neural networks are discussed. For now, you can look at SGD as an […]

3.3  Declarative Programming with Flows With retirement of Process Builder and Workflow Rules, the creation of new processes is limited. So now, new processes can only be created using Flow. The Migrate to Flow is an official tool provided by Salesforce to assist with the migration of workflow rules to flows. It is designed to […]

Patching This section covers the following official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) exam topic for Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation: 3.1 Provision and maintain cloud resources 3.2 Automate manual or repeatable processes CramSaver If you can correctly answer these questions before going through this section, save time by skimming the Exam Alerts […]

Setting Client Timeouts This best practice now applies to the client side, or sending end, of the request. Set timeouts accordingly depending on your use case when you depend on other components since they can become unhealthy and stop responding, as explained in the preceding section. Also, avoid relying on default values since they may […]

Routing Algorithms Depending on your design, you can configure either a round-robin or least outstanding request algorithm to distribute the load to the backend servers in a target group. While the round-robin algorithm is widely used, it does have a few architectural issues to consider. It cannot take into consideration the target server’s capacity and […]