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    Top Architecture Blog Posts of 2024

    Well, it’s been another historic year! We’ve watched in awe as the use of real-world generative AI has changed the tech landscape, and while we at the Architecture Blog happily participated, we also made every effort to stay true to our channel’s original scope, and your readership this last year has proven that decision was the right one. Here are our top posts from 2024!

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    Create a serverless custom retry mechanism for stateless queue consumers

    It is often challenging to build scalable, robust serverless applications that might need to talk with external services. In this post, we propose a solution that handles serverless retries when the workflow’s state isn’t managed by an additional service, giving developers fine-grained control over the retry interval, supporting scenarios such as exponential backoff.

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    Use generative AI on AWS for efficient clinical document analysis

    In this blog post, we show how Clario, a leading provider of endpoint data solutions to the clinical trials industry, built a custom generative AI platform on AWS to efficiently process thousands of documents in a matter of seconds.

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    Architectural best practices throughout the lifecycle

    Learn how to integrate architectural best practices at every stage of your workload’s lifecycle using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. (54:42)

    Building core capabilities: The secret to innovation at scale

    Unlock the potential of your business by learning how to build core capabilities. Discover how these platforms can empower your teams to innovate with speed. (43:57)

    How not to sabotage your transformation

    In this session, explore mental models based on real-world experiences designed to help organizations assess their competitiveness. (37:11)

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    Live Chat Content Moderation with…

    This Guidance demonstrates how organizations can implement generative artificial intelligence (AI) services for automated message screening in live chat environments.
    February 2025
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    Connected Mobility Solution on AWS

    Deploy an architecture that allows you to configure and develop modular services for a connected mobility solution.
    February 2025
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    Automate CloudFront updates for changes in…

    Set up an automated process to keep CloudFront synchronized with load balancer endpoint changes by using Terraform.

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    Tags: DevOps

    February 13, 2025
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    Tulip Next-Gen MES on AWS

    This Guidance illustrates how to build seamless data flows between the Tulip Frontline Operations Platform and an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
    February 2025
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    Unified Profiles for Travelers and Guests…

    Unified Profiles for Travelers and Guests on AWS helps you collect customer data from multiple systems to unlock insights, driving personalization and a curated experience for travelers and guests.

    February 2025
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    Monitoring AWS CloudHSM using…

    Review metrics and alarms that can help you monitor the health and security of AWS CloudHSM resources.

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    Tags: Management & Governance | Security

    February 10, 2025
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    Generative AI Application Builder on…

    Accelerates development and streamlines experimentation by helping you ingest your business-specific data and documents, evaluate and compare the performance of large language models (LLMs), rapidly build extensible applications, and deploy those applications with an enterprise-grade architecture.
    February 2025
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    AWS OCA 6-Point Framework: Engage…

    Deep dive into the Engage the Organization phase of the AWS OCA 6-Point Framework. This phase involves launching the activities identified in the strategies and plans that were created in earlier phases.

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    Tags: Management & Governance | Migration | Modernization

    February 07, 2025
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    Workload Discovery on AWS

    Workload Discovery on AWS is a visualization tool that quickly generates architecture diagrams of AWS Cloud workloads. Formerly called AWS Perspective.
    February 2025
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    Distributed Load Testing on AWS

    Deploy a solution that provisions the products and services necessary to automate application load testing.
    February 2025
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    Virtual Waiting Room on AWS

    Build a cloud infrastructure designed for temporarily offloading traffic to your website via a customizable virtual waiting room to avoid overwhelming your downstream systems.
    February 2025
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    Media Insights on AWS

    Deploy a solution that is a development framework for building applications that process videos, images, audio, and text with machine learning services on AWS.

    February 2025
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    Simple File Manager for Amazon EFS

    Deploy a solution that creates a web user interface for managing your Amazon EFS file systems.
    February 2025
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    Account Assessment for AWS Organizations

    This solution allows customers to better understand AWS Organizations dependencies by finding trusted access enabled AWS services, delegated admin accounts, and identity-based and resource-based policies.

    February 2025
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    Automations for AWS Firewall Manager

    Deploy a solution that centrally configures, manages, and audits firewall rules across all your accounts and resources in AWS Organizations.
    February 2025
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    Learn how to meet your security and compliance goals using AWS infrastructure and services.
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    Learn to build and run applications and backend services without servers.
  • Storage
    Design reliable, scalable, and secure data storage architectures.

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