The cloud has achieved an air of invincibility, and solutions such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) make cloud computing look so appealing. But building a good application on any platform is difficult. There will always be outages, small and large. Are you prepared to handle them? Resilience and Reliability on AWShelps you answer that and many other questions. Written by the founders of 9Apps, an independent provider of AWS and Eucalyptus cloud solutions, this book prepares infrastructure engineers to handle outages in their cloud systems, using low-cost tools that AWS provides for such an eventuality. You'll learn how the cloud works, and discover why AWS and other cloud computing services are not only cheaper but more reliable than building your own cloud system.