Manually monitoring dashboards and restarting instances is not scalable. As a Platform Engineer, one of your most critical responsibilities is to ensure that intermittent performance issues in web applications are detected quickly and resolved automatically before they escalate into user-facing outages.

Building highly available, fault-tolerant applications is a core competency for any AWS architect or engineer. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) on AWS, combining two of the most powerful services in the AWS compute ecosystem to deliver automatic scalability, resilience, and traffic distribution across multiple EC2 instances.

Hosting a static website on Amazon S3 with CloudFront is an efficient and cost-effective AWS architecture. This tutorial shows you how to set it up, including creating an S3 bucket, enabling secure Origin Access Control, configuring edge delivery, and cleaning up resources. This hands-on tutorial provides everything you need, whether you are preparing for AWS certification, developing a portfolio, or deploying a production-ready static site.