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Dynamic website - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS: Controlling Cost
Dynamic website
- [Instructor] So, now looking at our next scenario, which I call a dynamic website. So this could be like an e-commerce website or a website with more interaction around it. Around compute you'd have really the same considerations that you had with the simpler website, which is EC2 or Lambda, and really the same type of questions you'd be asking. If you're using EC2, which instance sizes, are you going to buy it on demand or reserved? One new thing here is you might need to add EC2 Load Balancers if it's a high volume site. And so you need to have expertise on how to set up those load balancers not some to cost of service. It's a cost of employees who understand how to use them. I've seen done wrong again many times. If you're using Lambda, it's a similar type of considerations around, do your employees know how to work with Lambda? Do they need training? And then you'll also be using API Gateway, so same thing. Now…