Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
User Guide (API Version 2011-12-15)
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Failure Resilient Application Concepts

You need to think about is how to design your application for failure resilience. It's inevitable that EC2 instances will fail, and you need to plan for it. An instance failure isn't a problem if your application is designed to handle it. This section points to references and sections in this guide that will help you understand how to design your application for fault tolerance.

Whitepapers

AWS solutions architects and evangelists have written white papers to help you think about designing your application. For more information, go to AWS Cloud Computing Whitepapers.

Features of EC2 for Failure Resilience

Within this guide, you should read the following sections to understand features of EC2 that help you build fault tolerant applications: