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Cloud Fundamentals
Module Overview

Application Integration & App Platforms

Learn how AWS services like SNS, SQS, and Elastic Beanstalk help you decouple components and deploy applications without managing infrastructure.

40 min
Introductory

This page introduces the module. It is not a lesson to complete.

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Application Integration & App Platforms

This module covers two important themes in modern cloud architecture:

  1. Decoupling — using messaging services (Amazon SNS and SQS) so application components communicate through intermediaries instead of directly calling each other.
  2. Managed platforms — using services like AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy applications without managing the underlying infrastructure yourself.

By the end of this module, you will understand when to use queues vs pub/sub, how the SNS fan-out pattern works, and where Beanstalk fits compared to EC2, Lambda, and containers.