Tag: Advice from AWS Solution Architects

Post by Sunil Mallya, Solutions Architect, AWS Time is the most critical component in the startup equation. Startups should maximize their time with customers and focus on building a better product, not spending their time managing infrastructure and servers. Amazon continues to build services that abstract complex components and focus on making it easy to […]

In this post, I don’t discuss what a CDN is or whether you should use a CDN to improve performance (you probably already know the answer to both). Rather, my goal here is to help you make an informed decision if you do choose to go with a CDN. Because there are many different CDN providers in the market today, choosing the right one based on your business needs is essential.

In part III of the architecture series by an AWS solutions architect, you’ll learn how to choose the right data store for your workloads.

We discuss how scalable cloud services enable you to quickly iterate on your MVP to discover your formula for success, and then scale up for mainstream adoption as you continue adding features.

we explain how SDS evolved from an early idea to its debut at the Dev Lounge at AWS re:Invent 2015. We share our learnings here, so that you can see how simple it is to connect a drone to the cloud and understand the architectural patterns that are applicable in designing such a system. More generally, we discuss the benefits of designing solutions based on tiny “Nanoservices” which helped us dramatically shrink the build-measure-learn loop.

Modern workers are mobile and connected, and they expect to have access to the tools they need from anywhere. When people need to access…

This post is part 3 of a blog series that shows you how to iteratively evolve a basic AWS architecture into one that supports millions of…

This is the second post in a two-part series about creating VPCs with Amazon VPC. In the first post, we cover what a VPC is and what its core components are. In this post, we discuss the considerations for designing and creating your VPC.

Welcome to the second post in a series of primers designed to help you scale your startup on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In the first post…

Introducing Amazon VPC and its components.