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    AWS Well-Architected

    AWS Well-Architected provides a framework to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient architectures.
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    Establishing Your Cloud Foundation on AWS

    This guided path approach helps you build and evolve your AWS Cloud environment based on a consolidated set of definitions, scenarios, guidance, and automations.
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    Establishing Your Cloud Foundation on AWS - Beyond Your Landing Zone

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    Explore this helpful resource outlining every AWS service at-hand to help you pick the right service for your architecture.
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    Deploy Stable Diffusion ComfyUI on AWS elastically and efficiently

    We show you how to deploy ComfyUI, an open-source node-based workflow solution for Stable Diffusion, on AWS elastically and efficiently with AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Blueprints.

    The ML-based telemetry analytics solution architecture

    Creating an organizational multi-Region failover strategy

    In this blog post, we help you identify the pros and cons of four high-level multi-Region failover strategies so you can make intentional choices about which you select for your solution. Each strategy has tradeoffs and addresses different challenges, including flexibility of failover decision making, testability of the failover combinations, presence of modal behavior, and organizational investment in planning and implementation. 

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    Let’s Architect! Discovering Generative AI on AWS

    In this post, we’ll cover these topics and share an initial set of methodologies to put generative AI into production. We’ll start with a broad introduction to the domain and then share a mix of videos, blogs, and hands-on workshops.

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    Reliability Pillar - AWS Well-Architected Framework

    The reliability pillar focuses on workloads performing their intended functions and how to recover quickly from failure to meet demands.
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    Designing for Reliability with AWS Well-Architected

    Building Resilient Well-Architected Workloads Using AWS Resilience Hub

    Learn how to use AWS Resilience Hub to assess and improve the resilience of your architecture based on its actionable recommendations.
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    Introduction to AWS Resilience Hub

    Resilience Lifecycle Framework: A Continuous Approach to Resilience Improvement

    The resilience lifecycle framework outlines five key stages containing resilience learnings and best practices that you can use to improve your resilience posture.
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    Incorporating Continuous Resilience in Your Development Ecosystem

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