AWS Infrastructure Event Readiness

Abstract 

This whitepaper describes guidelines and best practices for customers with production workloads deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) who want to design and provision their cloud-based applications to handle planned scaling events, such as product launches or seasonal traffic spikes, gracefully and dynamically. We address general design principles as well as provide specific best practices and guidance across multiple conceptual areas of infrastructure event planning. We then describe operational readiness considerations and practices, and post-event activities.