Category: Best Practices

As AI agents move from chatbots to taking action, their reliability depends on the consistency of the data layer beneath them. This post examines how replication lag poisons an agent’s context and shows how to match Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Keyspaces replication models to each task’s consistency requirements.

Learn three strategies for achieving disaster recovery while meeting data residency requirements. Ranging from encryption-based controls on multi-Region replication to fully in-country architectures, these patterns help you balance recovery objectives with regulatory constraints.

In this post, we show you how to run a one-hour prioritization session with your stakeholders, plot competing initiatives on a shared matrix by cost and impact and turn the result into an actionable architecture backlog – using a framework called Tech Roadmap Prioritization (TRP).

Cyber resilience is the ability to recover workloads to a known-good state after an adversary has affected the environment. Prevention works to keep threat actors out and detection works to find them quickly. Cyber resilience focuses on recovery: restoring a trustworthy environment when backups, credentials, or parts of the infrastructure can no longer be assumed […]

Organizations face critical architectural decisions that can impact their operations for years to come such as: Is it better to maintain a single organization or implement multiple organizations? In this post, I explain the key advantages and disadvantages of both approaches and the scenarios where each model fits best.

This post explores the architectural patterns, challenges, and best practices for building cross-partition failover, covering network connectivity, authentication, and governance. By understanding these constraints, you can design resilient cloud-native applications that balance regulatory compliance with operational continuity.

Are you ready to maximize your Well-Architected and Cloud Optimization learning and networking time at re:Invent 2025? We have put together this comprehensive guide to help you plan your schedule and make the most of the Well-Architected and cloud optimization sessions available this year. These sessions will deliver the practical guidance your teams need to lead strategic cloud initiatives, design next-generation architectures, optimize costs, or secure AI-powered systems.

Generative AI agents in production environments demand resilience strategies that go beyond traditional software patterns. AI agents make autonomous decisions, consume substantial computational resources, and interact with external systems in unpredictable ways. These characteristics create failure modes that conventional resilience approaches might not address. This post presents a framework for AI agent resilience risk analysis […]

In this post, we demonstrate how to deploy the DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B model using AWS DLCs for vLLMs on Amazon EKS, showcasing how these purpose-built containers simplify deployment of this powerful open source inference engine. This solution can help you solve the complex infrastructure challenges of deploying LLMs while maintaining performance and cost-efficiency.

As cloud spending continues to surge, organizations must focus on strategic cloud optimization to maximize business value. This blog post explores key insights from MIT Technology Review’s publication on cloud optimization, highlighting the importance of viewing optimization as a continuous process that encompasses all six AWS Well-Architected pillars.