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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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    Centralized Logging with OpenSearch

    Centralized Logging with OpenSearch makes it easy for organizations to collect, ingest, and visualize log data from various sources with Amazon OpenSearch service.
    March 2025
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    Dynamic Image Transformation for Amazon CloudFront

    Transform, optimize, and deliver images in real time at a fraction of the cost.

    March 2025
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    Network Orchestration for AWS Transit Gateway

    Automate the process of setting up and managing transit networks in distributed AWS environments. Visualize and monitor your global network from a single dashboard in the AWS Console so that you can control, audit, and approve (transit) network changes.
    March 2025
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    Automated Querying of Amazon S3 Logs with Amazon Athena

    The Guidance demonstrates an automated workflow for users to easily query and identify requests from various Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) related logs.
    March 2025
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    Amazon Marketing Cloud Uploader from AWS

    Deploy this solution to easily upload first-party signals into Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) for evaluating and planning advertising campaigns.

    March 2025
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    Centralized Network Inspection on AWS

    Deploy a solution that automates the process of provisioning a centralized AWS Network Firewall to inspect traffic between your Amazon VPCs.

    March 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.
    March 2025
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    Cognito User Profiles Export Reference Architecture

    Deploy a solution that provides a framework for exporting user profile and group information from a user pool, allowing users to focus on extending this solution’s functionality rather than managing the underlying infrastructure operation.
    March 2025
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    Creating RAG solutions on AWS for healthcare

    Use large language models in Amazon Bedrock to build a Retrieval Augmented Generation application for the healthcare industry.

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    Tags: Machine Learning

    March 14, 2025
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    Automate account creation using the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

    Use the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS solution to automatically deploy a new account when an authorized user submits a request.

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    Tags: Cloud foundations | DevOps | Infrastructure | Management & Governance

    March 14, 2025
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    Security Insights on AWS

    Security Insights on AWS creates an automated dashboard based on data from Amazon Security Lake to help Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and security operations center (SOC) teams gain visibility into their security data, quickly identify threats, and take timely action to enhance their enterprise-wide security.
    March 2025
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    QnABot on AWS

    Deploy a multi-channel, multi-language conversational interface (chatbot) that responds to your customer's questions, answers, and feedback, powered by large language models (LLMs).
    March 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.
    March 2025
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    Unified Profiles for Travelers and Guests on AWS

    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.
    March 2025
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    Enhanced Document Understanding on AWS

    Deploy an event-driven AWS Solution that automates document ingestion, analysis, detection, and redaction.
    March 2025
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    Learn how to move existing applications to AWS.
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    Learn to connect devices and collect, store, and analyze device data.
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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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