AWS Architecture Blog

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 […]

This post demonstrates how to build a Business Event Monitoring System (BEMS) on AWS that handles over 86 million daily events with near real-time visibility, cross-Region controls, and automated alerts for stuck events. You might deploy this system for business-level insights into how events are flowing through your organization or to visualize the flow of transactions in real time. Downstream services also will have the option to process and respond to events originating within the system or not.

Modern cloud architectures demand a new governance approach. In this post, we show how collaborative architecture oversight can transform team performance through automation, self-service platforms, and distributed decision-making.

In this post, we discuss Smartsheet’s journey optimizing its serverless architecture. We explore the solution, the stringent requirements Smartsheet faced, and how they’ve achieved an over 80% latency reduction. This technical journey offers valuable insights for organizations looking to enhance their serverless architectures with proven enterprise-grade optimization techniques.

We are delighted to introduce the new AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens. Use the lens to make sure that your generative AI workloads are architected with operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability in mind.

In this post, we identify the components of an efficient architecture review process, define what an ARB is, and describe how to build and operate an effective enterprise ARB.

In this post, we share how UNiDAYS achieved AWS Region expansion in just 3 weeks using AWS services.

The new Well-Architected Data Residency with Hybrid Cloud Services Lens is available now. Use the lens whitepaper to adopt your hybrid cloud workloads according to the tenants of the Well-Architected Framework while maintaining data sovereignty requirements.

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

In this post, you’ll learn how to implement Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) in your organization, based on best practices developed from experience with over 200 ADRs across multiple projects. You’ll also discover practical tips for streamlining architectural decision-making, see real-world examples from projects with teams ranging from 10 to over 100 members, and understand the common challenges in architecture decision-making and how ADRs can help address them.

In this post, we explore an intermediate strategy between the pilot light and the warm standby strategies: pilot light with reserved capacity. You can use this strategy to reserve compute capacity in a secondary Region while also limiting cost.