AWS Architecture Blog
Tag: Resilience
London Stock Exchange Group uses chaos engineering on AWS to improve resilience
This post was co-written with Luke Sudgen, Lead DevOps Engineer Post Trade, and Padraig Murphy, Solutions Architect Post Trade, from London Stock Exchange Group. In this post, we’ll discuss some failure scenarios that were tested by London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Post Trade Technology teams during a chaos engineering event supported by AWS. Chaos engineering […]
Let’s Architect! Resiliency in architectures
What is “resiliency”, and why does it matter? When we discussed this topic in an early 2022 edition of Let’s Architect!, we referenced the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which defines resilience as having “the capability to recover when stressed by load, accidental or intentional attacks, and failure of any part in the workload’s components.” Businesses rely […]
Understand resiliency patterns and trade-offs to architect efficiently in the cloud
This post was originally published in June 2022 and is now updated with more information on efficiently architecting resilient patterns in the cloud. Architecting workloads for resilience on the cloud often need to evaluate multiple factors before they can decide the most optimal architecture for their workloads. Example Corp has multiple applications with varying criticality, […]
Top 10 AWS Architecture Blog posts of 2022
As we wrap up 2022, we want to take a moment to shine a bright light on our readers, who spend their time exploring our posts, providing generous feedback, and asking poignant questions! Much appreciation goes to our Solutions Architects, who work tirelessly to identify and produce what our customers need. Without any further ado, […]
Let’s Architect! Architecting with Amazon DynamoDB
NoSQL databases are an essential part of the technology industry in today’s world. Why are we talking about NoSQL databases? NoSQL databases often allow developers to be in control of the structure of the data, and they are a good fit for big data scenarios and offer fast performance. In this issue of Let’s Architect!, […]
Verify the resilience of your workloads using Chaos Engineering
The following is an early preview of new guidance to be published as part of updates to the AWS Well-Architected content: Chaos Engineering enables us to find shortcomings before our customers find them and therefore, provides us with the opportunity to create a better customer experience. Chaos Engineering does not introduce chaos into your systems, […]
Continually assessing application resilience with AWS Resilience Hub and AWS CodePipeline
As customers commit to a DevOps mindset and embrace a nearly continuous integration/continuous delivery model to implement change with a higher velocity, assessing every change impact on an application resilience is key. This blog shows an architecture pattern for automating resiliency assessments as part of your CI/CD pipeline. Automatically running a resiliency assessment within CI/CD […]
Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 3, Application Management and Monitoring
In Part 1 of this series, we built a foundation for your multi-Region application using AWS compute, networking, and security services. In Part 2, we integrated AWS data and replication services to move and sync data between AWS Regions. In Part 3, we cover AWS services and features used for messaging, deployment, monitoring, and management. […]
Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 2, Data and Replication
Data is at the center of stateful applications. Data consistency models will vary when choosing in-Region vs. multi-Region. In this post, part 2 of 3, we continue to filter through AWS services to focus on data-centric services with native features to help get your data where it needs to be in support of a multi-Region […]
Building Resilient Well-Architected Workloads Using AWS Resilience Hub
AWS Resilience Hub is a new service that helps you understand and improve the resiliency of your workloads using AWS Well-Architected best practices. As the lead for the Reliability Pillar of AWS Well-Architected, I am eager to share with you how you can use Resilience Hub to ensure your workload architecture is as reliable as […]