AWS Architecture Blog

Announcing the Well-Architected Data Residency with Hybrid Cloud Services Lens

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.

From virtual machine to Kubernetes to serverless: How dacadoo saved 78% on cloud costs and automated operations

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

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.

spectrum of disaster recovery strategies

Pilot light with reserved capacity: How to optimize DR cost using On-Demand Capacity Reservations

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.

APIM Architecture

Build an enterprise API management solution using HAQM API Gateway

This blog post shows how you can use HAQM API Gateway—along with AWS Lambda, HAQM DynamoDB, and other AWS services—to create a comprehensive and customizable APIM solution. This solution addresses the complex requirements of large enterprises managing APIs at scale.

Training a call center fraud detection model for IVR calls with HAQM SageMaker Canvas

This blog post will show you how to use the power of ML to build a fraud-detection model using HAQM SageMaker Canvas, a no-code/low-code ML service that business analysts and domain experts can use to build, train, and deploy ML models without requiring extensive ML expertise.