Architecture World 3 · Elastic Fleet · Stage 4

Lose a Zone

Availability Zone b goes dark at 09:14. Which fleet keeps serving, whose sessions survive, what comes back by itself, and how fast does traffic leave the dark zone?

  • Static stability
  • AZ rebalancing
  • Session stores
  • EC2 automatic recovery
  • Route 53 health checks
  • Zonal shift
Domain
Core architecture
World
Architecture World 3: Elastic Fleet (Professional)
Game type
Fleet clock: Choose how a database fails over, then play the outage.
Time
About 30 minutes on a first attempt (estimated)
Exam guides
  • SAA-C03Task 2.2: Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures
  • SOA-C03Skill 2.2.1: Configure and troubleshoot Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Amazon Route 53 health checks; Skill 2.2.2: Configure fault-tolerant systems (for example, Multi-AZ deployments)
  • SAP-C02Task 2.4: Design a strategy to meet reliability requirements; Task 3.4: Determine a strategy to improve reliability
  • DOP-C02Task 3.1: Implement highly available solutions to meet resilience and business requirements