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Journey to Cloud-Native Architecture Series #6: Improve cost visibility and re-architect for cost optimization
After we improved our security posture in the 5th blog of the series, we discovered that operational costs are growing disproportionately higher than revenue. This is because the number of users grew more than 10 times on our e-commerce platform. To address this, we created a plan to better understand our AWS spend and identify cost […]
Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series #5 – Enhancing Threat Detection, Data Protection, and Incident Response
In Part 4 of this series, Governing Security at Scale and IAM Baselining, we discussed building a multi-account strategy and improving access management and least privilege to prevent unwanted access and to enforce security controls. As a refresher from previous posts in this series, our example e-commerce company’s “Shoppers” application runs in the cloud. The company […]
Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #4 – Governing Security at Scale and IAM Baselining
In Part 3 of this series, Improved Resiliency and Standardized Observability, we talked about design patterns that you can adopt to improve resiliency, achieve minimum business continuity, and scale applications with lengthy transactions (more than 3 minutes). As a refresher from previous blogs in this series, our example ecommerce company’s “Shoppers” application runs in the cloud. […]
Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #3 – Improved Resilience and Standardized Observability
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In the last blog, Maximizing System Throughput, we talked about design patterns you can adopt to address immediate scaling challenges to provide a better customer experience. In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability […]
Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #2 – Maximizing System Throughput
In the last blog, Preparing your Applications for Hypergrowth, we talked about hypergrowth and the technical challenges it presents to companies. As a reminder, we presented an example ecommerce company running a monolithic application on Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This application connects with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). The company recently experienced a […]
Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #1 – Preparing your Applications for Hypergrowth
In this blog series, we take an example ecommerce company and talk about their challenges due to hypergrowth. Their journey from running monolith applications to running cloud-native applications will provide you architecture patterns and strategies you can adopt to become more agile and innovative. Later in the series, we show you how to address immediate […]