System Design · generic · advanced
Cloud Architecture Patterns for High Availability
Design cloud architectures that stay up under failure, load, and disaster. Master multi-region active-active patterns, chaos engineering, SRE principles, and the cost-reliability tradeoffs that separate amateur and professional cloud architects.
- 5 hours
- 16 lessons
- 6 modules
- updated April 2026
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The Circuit Breaker Pattern: States and Implementation
6 modules, 16 lessons
Module 1 is free — lessons, hands-on walkthrough and quiz.
- readThe Circuit Breaker Pattern: States and Implementation45 min
- videoVideo: The Circuit Breaker Pattern Explained15 min
- readThe Bulkhead Pattern: Fault Isolation45 min
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- 01 Last updated April 2026.
- 02 Any module can become a hands-on lab in Labs Studio.
What you'll be able to do
- 01 Distinguish active-passive and active-active failover and implement multi-region Route 53 routing
- 02 Configure RDS Multi-AZ, read replicas, and Aurora Global Database for resilient data tiers
- 03 Define and measure SLOs, SLAs, SLIs, and error budgets for production services
- 04 Run chaos experiments using AWS Fault Injection Simulator to validate resilience
- 05 Calculate RTO/RPO requirements and select the appropriate DR strategy
- 06 Apply cost-reliability tradeoff analysis to choose between 99.9%, 99.99%, and 99.999% availability tiers
- — Strong understanding of cloud fundamentals
- — Basic system design knowledge
Before you start
How long does it take?
About 5 hours of lessons, videos and hands-on walkthroughs across 6 modules.
What’s free?
Module 1 in full — lessons, hands-on walkthrough and quiz — with no card required. Any paid plan (from $8.99/mo) unlocks all 6 modules, and starts with a 14-day free trial.
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