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The AWS Architecture Center provides reference architecture diagrams, vetted architecture solutions, Well-Architected best practices, patterns, icons, and more. This expert guidance was contributed by AWS cloud architecture experts, including AWS Solutions Architects, Professional Services Consultants, and Partners.

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Security, Identity, & Compliance

Learn how to meet your security and compliance goals using AWS infrastructure and services.

Identity & Access Management

Manage access to AWS services and resources.

Detection & Incident Response

Detect suspicious activity and respond to risks.

Infrastructure Protection

Monitor and control your network infrastructure.

Data Protection

Operate the security services that protect your data.

Compliance

Implement compliance controls with AWS.

Analytics & Big Data

Build secure, reliable, cost-effective data-processing architectures.

Data Lakes

Best practices for setting up and managing data lakes.

Data Analytics

Analyze your data at scale in the AWS Cloud.

Data Management

Store and manage your data in the cloud.

Compute & HPC

Learn how to develop, deploy, run, and scale your applications.

Core Compute

Deploying secure, reliable compute capacity.

High-Performance Computing

Best practices for high-performance computing.

EC2 Spot & Fleet

Guidance for running EC2 spot instances and Spot fleet.

Containers

Learn the most secure, reliable, and scalable way to run containers.

DevOps Practices

Leverage containers to enable DevOps workflows.

Observability

Enable visibility and anomaly detection.

Container Security

Best practices for securing your containers.

Databases

Choose the right database for your use case and access patterns.

How to Choose a Database

Choose the right service for your database.

Migrate Your Database

Best practices for moving your database to the AWS Cloud.

Modernize Your Database

Learn how to build databases for modern applications.

AWS ARCHITECTURE BLOG

Read and share AWS Cloud architecture guidance and best practices.

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AWS ARCHITECTURE MONTHLY

Each month, AWS chooses a theme and curates content about architecting in the AWS Cloud.

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AWS RAMP-UP GUIDE: ARCHITECT

A recommended progression of resources to learn about architecting in the AWS Cloud.

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Industries

Financial Services

Learn to build the most secure, compliant, resilient cloud architectures.

Game Tech

Learn how to build, operate, and create computationally ridiculous games.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Learn how to leverage architecture best practices to improve patient outcomes and lower costs.

Manufacturing

Learn how to transform your manufacturing operations to optimize production.

Travel & Hospitality

Deliver enhanced customer experiences and operational efficiency.

Additional Technology Categories

Cost Optimization

Learn how to continuously optimize your costs.

End User Computing

Build architectures that help you respond to the changing needs of your workforce.

IoT

Learn to connect devices, and collect, store, and analyze device data.

Machine Learning

Build effective and efficient machine learning architectures.

Management & Governance

Learn to more rapidly and reliably build and deliver products using AWS.

Microsoft

Learn best practices for building and running Microsoft applications.

Migration

Learn how to move existing applications to the AWS Cloud.

Networking & Content Delivery

Learn to connect devices, and collect, store, and analyze device data.

Serverless

Learn to build and run applications and backend services without servers.

Storage

Design reliable, scalable, and secure data storage architectures.

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