Knowledge of:

  • AWS compute services with appropriate use cases (for example, AWS Batch, Amazon EMR, Fargate)
  • Distributed computing concepts supported by AWS global infrastructure and edge services
  • Queuing and messaging concepts (for example, publish/subscribe)
  • Scalability capabilities with appropriate use cases (for example, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS Auto Scaling)
  • Serverless technologies and patterns (for example, Lambda, Fargate)
  • The orchestration of containers (for example, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS)

Skills in:

  • Decoupling workloads so that components can scale independently
  • Identifying metrics and conditions to perform scaling actions
  • Selecting the appropriate compute options and features (for example, EC2 instance types) to meet business requirements
  • Selecting the appropriate resource type and size (for example, the amount of Lambda memory) to meet business requirements
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