Capstone: Multi-Tier Architecture Design Scenario
Design and deploy a complete 3-tier AWS architecture by making real exam-style decisions about compute, database, storage, CDN, and monitoring services.
Lab Overview
This capstone lab challenges you to architect and deploy a production-grade 3-tier web application on AWS. Unlike guided labs, you will face realistic scenarios that require you to choose the right services and configurations before implementing them — just like on the AWS Solutions Architect exam.
You will build:
- A highly available compute tier with ALB and Auto Scaling
- A resilient database tier with RDS Multi-AZ and read replicas
- A global content delivery layer with S3 and CloudFront
- A monitoring and alerting system with CloudWatch and SNS
Each task presents a business scenario with constraints (budget, traffic patterns, availability requirements) and asks you to select the appropriate AWS service configuration before building it.
Key Resources:
What You'll Learn
Analyze business requirements and select appropriate AWS compute configurations
Design a resilient database tier with Multi-AZ deployment and read replicas
Implement a content delivery strategy using S3 and CloudFront
Configure monitoring alarms and notification channels for operational visibility
Prerequisites
AWS CLI familiarity
Understanding of VPC, subnets, and security groups
Basic knowledge of EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch
Technologies Covered
Part of a Course
This lab is part of the AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) course
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