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Serverless E-Commerce Platform

In this project, you are tasked with building a serverless e-commerce platform that enables
users to browse products, add them to their shopping cart, and place orders. The system will
use AWS Lambda to handle backend logic and processes, including managing user
authentication, product listing, and order handling. You will use Amazon API Gateway to
expose RESTful APIs that interact with your Lambda functions. The product catalog and
order details will be stored in Amazon DynamoDB as a NoSQL database, ensuring scalability
and low-latency access. Product images will be stored in Amazon S3, and for faster content
delivery, you will integrate Amazon CloudFront. Amazon Cognito will be used to manage
user authentication, providing secure access to the platform.
As part of the project, you will also configure monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch to track
the performance and health of the system. The platform will be fully serverless, allowing you
to focus on application logic rather than managing servers, and will automatically scale
based on usage.

2. Scalable Web Application with Auto-Scaling and Load Balancing

For this project, you will design and deploy a scalable web application that can
automatically scale in and out based on traffic demands. The web application will consist of
multiple components, including Amazon EC2 instances running the web server and
application server, with an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to distribute incoming traffic evenly
across these instances. The EC2 instances will be part of an Auto Scaling Group to ensure
that the number of instances increases or decreases depending on the current load.
You will integrate Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora for the relational database layer, ensuring
that data is consistently available and resilient to failures. For static assets such as images,
CSS, or JavaScript files, you will use Amazon S3 to store and serve them. Additionally, you
will configure Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the system's performance and set up Auto
Scaling policies based on traffic spikes.
This project will give you a solid understanding of how to build and maintain highly available,
scalable applications in AWS, using industry best practices like load balancing, auto-scaling,
and multi-tier architecture.

3. Real-Time Data Processing with AWS Kinesis

In this project, you will implement a real-time data streaming system using AWS Kinesis.
The objective is to ingest and process data streams in real-time, which could be application
logs, IoT data, or social media feeds. You will set up Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to capture
incoming data, and create AWS Lambda functions to process the data as it is ingested.
The data will be filtered, aggregated, and transformed before being stored in Amazon S3 or
Amazon DynamoDB for further analysis. You will also implement Amazon Kinesis Data
Firehose to continuously load processed data into Amazon Redshift for analytics, or you
could visualize the data in Amazon QuickSight to generate real-time insights. This project
will teach you how to work with AWS’s data streaming and real-time analytics tools, which
are critical for building applications that need to process large amounts of data instantly.

4. Build a Real-Time Chat Application Using AWS Lambda and API Gateway
In this project, you will develop a real-time chat application that allows users to send and
receive messages instantly. The application will leverage AWS Lambda for backend
processing, Amazon API Gateway to expose APIs, and Amazon DynamoDB to store chat
messages. You will implement WebSockets using API Gateway to maintain persistent
connections between clients and the server, enabling real-time message delivery.
The system will use Amazon Cognito for user authentication and authorization, ensuring
secure access to the chat platform. For scalability, the chat application will be serverless,
with AWS Lambda automatically scaling based on the number of concurrent users.
Additionally, you will use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor Lambda functions and Amazon
SNS to send notifications for new messages.

5. Multi-Region Disaster Recovery System

In this project, you will design a multi-region disaster recovery solution for a critical
application that can automatically failover to a backup region in the event of a disaster. You
will deploy a sample web application in AWS Region A using Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS
for the primary production environment. Then, you will replicate the application and
database to a secondary AWS Region B to provide disaster recovery capability.
To manage failover, you will use Amazon Route 53 for DNS-based routing, which will
automatically redirect traffic to the secondary region if the primary region becomes
unavailable. Amazon S3 will be used for cross-region replication to ensure that critical data is
synchronized between regions, while Amazon Aurora will handle cross-region replication for
database consistency. This project will teach you how to implement high-availability
architectures and disaster recovery strategies in AWS.

6. CI/CD Pipeline for Automated Application Deployment

In this project, you will set up a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
(CI/CD) pipeline that automates the process of building, testing, and deploying your
application. The pipeline will be created using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS
CodeDeploy. You will configure CodePipeline to trigger builds and deployments
automatically whenever new code is pushed to your GitHub repository or AWS
CodeCommit.
During the build phase, AWS CodeBuild will compile and test the code, while AWS
CodeDeploy will automate the deployment process to Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic
Beanstalk, or Amazon ECS (if containerized). This pipeline will ensure that your application is
always up to date with the latest changes and deployed without downtime, following
DevOps best practices.

7. Monitoring and Logging System with Amazon CloudWatch

For this project, you will implement a comprehensive monitoring and logging system to
track the health and performance of your AWS infrastructure. You will configure Amazon
CloudWatch to collect metrics and logs from Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS, and other
AWS services. The goal is to set up real-time monitoring and create custom dashboards to
track important metrics such as CPU utilization, memory usage, database queries, and
network traffic.
You will also configure CloudWatch Alarms to send notifications via Amazon SNS when any
metric exceeds a predefined threshold. For example, you might want to set an alarm for high
CPU utilization that triggers an alert to your team. This project will familiarize you with
CloudWatch’s capabilities for monitoring, logging, and alerting in AWS environments.

8. Automated Backup and Archiving Solution Using AWS Backup and Glacier
In this project, you will create an automated backup and archival system to protect your
data. You will use AWS Backup to schedule and automate backups of Amazon EC2 instances,
Amazon RDS databases, and Amazon EFS file systems. These backups will be stored in
Amazon S3 initially, and then moved to Amazon Glacier for long-term archival storage.
You will also configure backup lifecycle policies to automatically transition older backups to
Glacier, minimizing storage costs. Additionally, you will implement automated recovery tests
to ensure that the backup system is reliable. This project will teach you how to design a cost-
effective and reliable backup solution using AWS services.

9. Serverless Data Warehousing with Amazon Redshift and AWS Glue

In this project, you will build a serverless data warehousing solution using Amazon Redshift
and AWS Glue for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes. You will first create a data lake
on Amazon S3 to store raw data from various sources, such as logs, sales data, or IoT sensor
data. Then, using AWS Glue, you will set up ETL jobs to transform and load the data into
Amazon Redshift for structured querying.
You will learn how to optimize Amazon Redshift performance by setting up efficient data
models and using features like Redshift Spectrum to query data directly from S3. They will
also learn how to automate the ETL pipeline and handle large volumes of data in a serverless
architecture.
10. Serverless Image Processing Pipeline
In this project, you will create a serverless image processing pipeline that automatically
processes images uploaded to Amazon S3. When a user uploads an image to an S3 bucket,
the system will trigger an AWS Lambda function that performs tasks such as resizing the
image, compressing it, or applying filters.
You will use Amazon S3 to store both the original and processed images, and AWS Lambda
will scale automatically based on the number of incoming image uploads. Additionally, you
will integrate Amazon SNS to send notifications to the user once the image processing is
complete.
This project will teach you how to leverage AWS's serverless capabilities to build an efficient,
scalable image processing system.