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The Production Account is isolated after a confirmed event. The Recovery Account owns the logically air-gapped vault and controls restore authorization through Multi-party approval. The IRE has no trust relationship or network path to production.

Cyber resilience on AWS: A reference approach for recovery from ransomware and destructive events

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 […]

AWS Cloud architecture diagram for the PACIFIC platform showing a multi-layered system. At the top, a PACIFIC Web Client connects to an Identity & Authorization layer containing Amazon Cognito, AWS IAM, and AWS Secrets Manager. Traffic flows through AWS WAF to an Application Load Balancer within a VPC, which distributes requests to Amazon ECS (AWS Fargate) hosting four containerized microservices: core-modules, integration-module, pcf-exchange-module, and edc-dtr-module. These modules connect to Amazon RDS for relational database storage and Amazon S3 for object storage. External integrations at the bottom include BASF Product Carbon Footprint Services, an EDC/DTR Service Provider, and the Catena-X Automotive Network. The diagram illustrates a secure, microservices-based architecture for automotive industry carbon footprint data exchange.

PACIFIC enables multi-tenant, sovereign product carbon footprint exchange on the Catena-X data space using AWS

This post explores how PACIFIC enables multi-tenant, sovereign PCF exchange on the Catena-X data space using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate, Amazon Cognito, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to deliver measurable environmental impact and competitive advantage in a carbon-conscious marketplace.

AWS Backup and replication for Amazon RDS

Streamlining access to powerful disaster recovery capabilities of AWS

In this blog post, we take a building blocks approach. Starting with the tools like AWS Backup to protect your data, we then add protection for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS). Finally, we show how to use the full capabilities of AWS to restore your entire workload—data, infrastructure, networking, and configuration, using Arpio disaster recovery automation.

Figure 2: Aigen modernized architecture

How Aigen transformed agricultural robotics for sustainable farming with Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, you will learn how Aigen modernized its machine learning (ML) pipeline with Amazon SageMaker AI to overcome industry-wide agricultural robotics challenges and scale sustainable farming. This post focuses on the strategies and architecture patterns that enabled Aigen to modernize its pipeline across hundreds of distributed edge solar robots and showcase the significant business outcomes unlocked through this transformation. By adopting automated data labeling and human-in-the-loop validation, Aigen increased image labeling throughput by 20x while reducing image labeling costs by 22.5x.

This diagram shows the AWS architecture of Santander's Catalyst platform that provides AI capabilities to teams across the company.

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.

BASF Digital Farming builds a STAC-based solution on Amazon EKS

This post was co-written with Frederic Haase and Julian Blau with BASF Digital Farming GmbH. At xarvio – BASF Digital Farming, our mission is to empower farmers around the world with cutting-edge digital agronomic decision-making tools. Central to this mission is our crop optimization platform, xarvio FIELD MANAGER, which delivers actionable insights through a range […]

AWS architecture showing protein vector processing workflow with ECR, Lambda, and LanceDB

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.

From virtual machine to Kubernetes to serverless: How dacadoo saved 78% on cloud costs and automated operations

In this post, we walk you step-by-step through dacadoo’s journey of embracing managed services, highlighting their architectural decisions as we go.

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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 […]

Architecture diagram showing the ComfyUI integration with Amazon EKS

How to build custom nodes workflow with ComfyUI on Amazon EKS

ComfyUI is an open-source node-based workflow solution for Stable Diffusion and increasingly being used by many creators. We previously published a blog and solution about how to deploy ComfyUI on AWS. Typically, ComfyUI users use various custom nodes, which extend the capabilities of ComfyUI, to build their own workflows, often using ComfyUI-Manager to conveniently install and manage their […]