AWS Use Case - Building Resilient Cloud Architecture at TerraLearn 🌐🚀

Discover how you can master AWS cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and site reliability through hands-on projects designed to mirror real-world challenges.

Welcome to TerraLearn: The Real-World AWS Project Simulation for Aspiring DevOps Engineers

What if you could join a project that mirrors the day-to-day challenges of a DevOps Engineer at a fast-scaling tech company? Imagine learning not just concepts, but also real-world problem-solving, as you architect and scale infrastructure to meet high demands. That’s exactly what you’ll experience in the AWS Cohort as part of our Devops Career Accelerator program as you take on the role of a RealOps Engineer at TerraLearn—a fictional but fully immersive EdTech platform.

Each week, you’ll tackle a mission critical to TerraLearn’s infrastructure. You’ll design solutions to support high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance. Each step of this journey prepares you for in-demand roles like DevOps Engineer, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure Specialist, or Platform Engineer—and it’s all guided by real-life scenarios and AWS best practices. Let’s dive into your mission roadmap!

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Mission 1: Build the Foundation – Networking and VPC Design 🌐

Objective: TerraLearn’s learners connect from across the globe, so the first step is to create a secure, efficient network backbone to support them. Your task? Build a custom Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) that ensures the platform’s security and stability.

• Mission Tasks:

  • Create a VPC with two public and two private subnets across two Availability Zones for redundancy.

  • Configure an Internet Gateway for public subnets and optionally NAT Gateway for private ones.

• Outcome: After this mission, you’ll have built TerraLearn’s foundation, ensuring a secure and resilient network. You’ll understand VPC design and subnet configurations—essential skills for any cloud architect!

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Mission 2: Launch TerraLearn’s Core – EC2 and RDS Setup 🖥️💾

Objective: It’s time to bring TerraLearn to life. In this mission, you’ll deploy the TerraLearn community platform on an EC2 instance and connect it to a secure RDS MySQL backend. This setup forms the backbone of TerraLearn’s online community, allowing users to learn, collaborate, and engage.

• Mission Tasks:

  • Set up an EC2 instance with WordPress, which will host TerraLearn’s learning site.

  • Configure an RDS MySQL database to handle user data and course information.

  • Connect WordPress to RDS, creating a fully functional backend.

• Outcome: By the end of this mission, TerraLearn’s core application will be live and fully operational. You’ll gain hands-on experience in deploying front-end and database servers, setting up a common architecture for high-traffic applications.

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Mission 3: Prepare for Scale – EBS, EFS, and S3 Storage Solutions 📦🌩️

Objective: TerraLearn’s user base is rapidly expanding, so it’s essential to set up scalable storage. In this mission, you’ll implement shared storage to support multiple instances and establish a high-performance content delivery system.

• Mission Tasks:

  • EBS: Use Elastic Block Storage for persistent storage on your EC2 instance.

  • EFS: Configure Elastic File System to provide shared storage for media, plugins, and themes, preparing for future scaling with multiple instances.

  • S3: Set up an S3 bucket and integrate it with a WordPress plugin, ensuring that all media uploads are offloaded to S3, reducing load on your servers.

  • Static Site on S3: Create a small static site, such as a public user guide or blog, hosted entirely on S3 to demonstrate the power of S3 for static content.

• Outcome: You’ll understand the differences between AWS storage options and when to use each, mastering how to select and implement EBS, EFS, and S3. This mission future-proofs TerraLearn’s infrastructure, enabling seamless scaling.

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Mission 4: Defend and Strengthen – Autoscaling, Load Balancing, and Monitoring 🚀📈

Objective: With TerraLearn’s platform live and scaling, it’s time to make it resilient and responsive under any load. Your final mission will focus on ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance, even during peak usage.

• Mission Tasks:

  • Configure an Auto Scaling Group to dynamically adjust the number of EC2 instances based on demand.

  • Set up an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic, improving performance and reliability.

  • Implement CloudWatch monitoring and custom scaling policies, ensuring TerraLearn remains operational during high-traffic events.

• Outcome: You’ll complete TerraLearn’s infrastructure, creating a fault-tolerant, self-healing system. By the end of this mission, you’ll have mastered the skills necessary to design highly available architectures, making you well-prepared for real-world challenges.

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Join the RealOps Movement – Master the Skills for a DevOps Career

This journey isn’t just theory or lecture-based learning; it’s a complete transformation designed to make you a job-ready RealOps Engineer. Through hands-on missions, you’ll experience first-hand what it’s like to be part of a cutting-edge engineering team, designing solutions for the very challenges DevOps and SRE professionals tackle every day.

Each mission builds skills that align with AWS certifications, preparing you to ace those exams with confidence. But more importantly, you’ll gain practical experience that sets you apart in interviews and on the job.

Ready to become a RealOps Engineer? Start your journey today with the DevOps Career Accelerator. In this program, you’re not just learning concepts; you’re solving real-world problems and building the cloud infrastructure of tomorrow. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to supercharge your career—sign up now and take the first step toward mastering cloud, DevOps, and site reliability.

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