AWS Architecture Blog
Category: Best Practices
Empower your teams with modern architecture governance
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.
How Smartsheet reduced latency and optimized costs in their serverless architecture
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.
Build and operate an effective architecture review board
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.
Master architecture decision records (ADRs): Best practices for effective decision-making
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.
Use generative AI on AWS for efficient clinical document analysis
In this post, we show how Clario uses the AWS platform to accelerate clinical document analysis.
Let’s Architect! Serverless developer experience in AWS
Accelerate your serverless feedback loop with game-changing AWS developer tools: generate tests with AI, visualize DynamoDB schemas locally, optimize Lambda memory, and more—all within a streamlined local IDE experience.
Let’s Architect! Modern data architectures
Data is the fuel for AI; modern data is even more important for generative AI and advanced data analytics, producing more accurate, relevant, and impactful results. Modern data comes in various forms: real-time, unstructured, or user-generated. Each form requires a different solution. AWS’s data journey began with HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) in 2006, […]
Let’s Architect! Building multi-tenant SaaS systems
Software as a Service (SaaS) applications offer a transformative solution for businesses worldwide, delivering on-demand software solutions to a global audience. However, building a successful SaaS platform demands on meticulous architectural planning, especially given the inherent challenges of multi-tenancy. It’s also essential to ensure that each tenant’s data remains isolated and protected from unauthorized access […]
Let’s Architect! Designing Well-Architected systems
The design of cloud workloads can be a complex task, where a perfect and universal solution doesn’t exist. We should balance all the different trade-offs and find an optimal solution based on our context. But how does it work in practice? Which guiding principles should we follow? Which are the most important areas we should […]
Announcing updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework guidance
We are excited to announce the availability of an enhanced AWS Well-Architected Framework. In this update, you’ll find expanded guidance across all six pillars of the Framework: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. In this release, we updated the implementation guidance for the new and existing best practices to be more prescriptive. This includes enhanced recommendations and steps […]