AWS Architecture Blog
Category: Customer Solutions
Digital Transformation at Santander: How Platform Engineering is Revolutionizing Cloud Infrastructure
Santander faced a significant technical challenge in managing an infrastructure that processes billions of daily transactions across more than 200 critical systems. The solution emerged through an innovative platform engineering initiative called Catalyst, which transformed the bank’s cloud infrastructure and development management. This post analyzes the main cases, benefits, and results obtained with this initiative.
6,000 AWS accounts, three people, one platform: Lessons learned
This post describes why ProGlove chose a account-per-tenant approach for our serverless SaaS architecture and how it changes the operational model. It covers the challenges you need to anticipate around automation, observability and cost. We will also discuss how the approach can affect other operational models in different environments like an enterprise context.
How Convera built fine-grained API authorization with Amazon Verified Permissions
In this post, we share how Convera used Amazon Verified Permissions to build a fine-grained authorization model for their API platform.
How Artera enhances prostate cancer diagnostics using AWS
In this post, we explore how Artera used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop and scale their AI-powered prostate cancer test, accelerating time to results and enabling personalized treatment recommendations for patients.
How Salesforce migrated from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter across their fleet of 1,000 EKS clusters
This blog post examines how Salesforce, operating one of the world’s largest Kubernetes deployments, successfully migrated from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter across their fleet of 1,000 plus Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters.
How BASF’s Agriculture Solutions drives traceability and climate action by tokenizing cotton value chains using Amazon Managed Blockchain
BASF Agricultural Solutions combines innovative products and digital tools with practical farmer knowledge. This post explores how Amazon Managed Blockchain can drive a positive change in the agricultural industry by tokenizing food and cotton value chains for traceability, climate action, and circularity.
A scalable, elastic database and search solution for 1B+ vectors built on LanceDB and Amazon S3
In this post, we explore how Metagenomi built a scalable database and search solution for over 1 billion protein vectors using LanceDB and Amazon S3. The solution enables rapid enzyme discovery by transforming proteins into vector embeddings and implementing a serverless architecture that combines AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, and Amazon S3 for efficient nearest neighbor searches.
How CommBank made their CommSec trading platform highly available and operationally resilient
In this post, we explore how CommSec, Australia’s leading online broker, transitioned from a multicloud environment to AWS as their sole cloud provider while implementing Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift to maintain high availability and operational resilience. The consolidation resulted in significant benefits including 25% base capacity reduction, two times faster deployments, and improved failover capabilities through ARC zonal shift, enabling CommSec to continue serving millions of customers while meeting strict regulatory requirements.
How Karrot built a feature platform on AWS, Part 1: Motivation and feature serving
This two-part series shows how Karrot developed a new feature platform, which consists of three main components: feature serving, a stream ingestion pipeline, and a batch ingestion pipeline. This post starts by presenting our motivation, our requirements, and the solution architecture, focusing on feature serving.
How Karrot built a feature platform on AWS, Part 2: Feature ingestion
This two-part series shows how Karrot developed a new feature platform, which consists of three main components: feature serving, a stream ingestion pipeline, and a batch ingestion pipeline. This post covers the process of collecting features in real-time and batch ingestion into an online store, and the technical approaches for stable operation.









