A digital media app's files must survive the loss of an Availability Zone, with some files accessed frequently and others rarely in an unpredictable pattern, minimizing storage and retrieval costs.
An ecommerce flash-sale site featuring one product per 24-hour window needs to handle millions of requests per hour with millisecond latency, at the lowest possible operational overhead.
A company needs to clone large amounts of production EBS-backed data into a test environment quickly, without affecting production, while keeping consistently high I/O performance.
A three-tier app needs every request to pass through a third-party virtual firewall appliance in a separate inspection VPC before reaching the web tier, with the least operational overhead.
A microservice must compress uploaded images automatically using durable, stateless components — moving them from an intake S3 bucket to a compressed-output S3 bucket.
A new business application runs on two EC2 instances and needs access to an S3 bucket for document storage.
A data lake spans S3 and RDS for PostgreSQL. The company needs data visualization across all sources, with management getting full access and everyone else limited access.
A company migrated to AWS and wants to protect traffic in and out of the production VPC the way its on-premises inspection server used to.
A MySQL database on a single large EC2 instance degrades under load. The app is read-heavy and needs automatic scaling for unpredictable reads plus high availability.
A company needs to rotate credentials for RDS for MySQL databases across multiple AWS Regions during monthly maintenance, with the least operational overhead.