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Marwan Al Shawi

Author: Marwan Al Shawi

Marwan is an AWS Solutions Architect who has been in the IT industry for more than 15 years. He’s been involved in architecting, designing, and implementing various large-scale IT solutions with different organizations such as Cisco Systems, BT global services, and IBM Australia. Marwan has authored three advanced networking design books as well as several AWS blogs and whitepapers. He holds a Master of Science degree in internetworking from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Figure 2. Architecture pattern (high-level layout)

Use a City Planning Analogy to Visualize and Create your Cloud Architecture

If you are new to creating cloud architectures, you might find it a daunting undertaking. However, there is an approach that can help you define a cloud architecture pattern by using a similar construct. In this blog post, I will show you how to envision your cloud architecture using this structured and simplified approach. Such […]

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Architecting for Reliable Scalability

Cloud solutions architects should ideally “build today with tomorrow in mind,” meaning their solutions need to cater to current scale requirements as well as the anticipated growth of the solution. This growth can be either the organic growth of a solution or it could be related to a merger and acquisition type of scenario, where […]