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Expert talk on "Building Scalable Solutions on AWS
On 24th March 2025, the Department of Information Science and Engineering hosted an expert talk on “Building Scalable Solutions on AWS”, presented by Mr. Anil P, Cloud Solution Architect at SAP Labs.
The session began with an introduction to cloud computing and industry expectations for cloud programming. Key topics included the role of a Cloud Architect, Storage, and Database Management.
The instructor discussed elastic computing with EC2 Auto Scaling and AWS Lambda for resource optimization and database scaling using Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and Aurora. Load balancing and networking techniques like ELB, CloudFront CDN, and Route 53 were highlighted for efficient Traffic Management. Microservices were explored with ECS, EKS, API Gateway, and event-driven architectures using SNS/SQS. Caching through ElastiCache and CloudFront was emphasized for performance improvements.
The session further covered monitoring tools like CloudWatch and strategies for security and cost optimization, including IAM roles, encryption, AWS WAF, and spot instances. The session concluded with insights into AWS-related job opportunities. Attendees gained knowledge on roles like Cloud Solution Architect, AWS services, and database storage solutions.
