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Category: Management Tools

The simple serverless architecture with added security best practices

How CyberArk is streamlining serverless governance by codifying architectural blueprints

This post was co-written with Ran Isenberg, Principal Software Architect at CyberArk and an AWS Serverless Hero. Serverless architectures enable agility and simplified cloud resource management. Organizations embracing serverless architectures build robust, distributed cloud applications. As organizations grow and the number of development teams increases, maintaining architectural consistency, standardization, and governance across projects becomes crucial. […]

AWS Outposts and AWS Local Zones at athenahealth

Hybrid Cloud Journey using Amazon Outposts and AWS Local Zones

This post was co-written with Amy Flanagan, Vice President of Architecture and leader of the Virtual Architecture Team (VAT) at athenahealth, and Anusha Dharmalingam, Executive Director and Senior Architect at athenahealth. athenahealth has embarked on an ambitious journey to modernize its technology stack by leveraging AWS’s hybrid cloud solutions. This transformation aims to enhance scalability, […]

Architecture for deploying stable diffusion on ComfyUI

Deploy Stable Diffusion ComfyUI on AWS elastically and efficiently

Introduction ComfyUI is an open-source node-based workflow solution for Stable Diffusion. It offers the following advantages: Significant performance optimization for SDXL model inference High customizability, allowing users granular control Portable workflows that can be shared easily Developer-friendly Due to these advantages, ComfyUI is increasingly being used by artistic creators. In this post, we will introduce […]

End-to-end solution using Zurich's tooling

How Zurich Insurance Group built their Scalable Account Vending process using AWS Account Factory for Terraform

Introduction Zurich Insurance Group is a leading multi-line global insurer operating in more than 200 territories. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, their main business is life and property and casualty (P&C) insurance. In 2022, Zurich began a multi-year program to accelerate their digital transformation and innovation through migration of 1,000 workloads to AWS, including core insurance […]

Cell-based architecture

Journey to Cloud-Native Architecture Series #7:  Using Containers and Cell-based design for higher resiliency and efficiency

In our previous Journey to Cloud-Native blogposts, we talked about evolving our architecture to become more scalable, secure, and cost effective to handle hyperscale requirements. In this post, we take these next steps: 1/ containerizing our applications to improve resource efficiency, and, 2/ using cell-based design to improve resiliency and time to production. Containerize applications […]

ITS’ microservice architecture, using AWS

ITS adopts microservices architecture for improved air travel search engine

Internet Travel Solutions, LLC (ITS) is a travel management company that develops and maintains smart products and services for the corporate, commercial, and cargo sectors. ITS streamlines travel bookings for companies of any size around the world. It provides an intuitive consumer site with an integrated view of your travel and expenses. ITS had been […]

Architecture to track and monitor AWS Health events

How Thomson Reuters monitors and tracks AWS Health alerts at scale

Thomson Reuters Corporation is a leading provider of business information services. The company’s products include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most trusted global news service: Reuters. Thomson Reuters is committed to a cloud first strategy on AWS, with thousands of applications hosted on AWS […]

Multi-VPC infrastructure architecture

Microservices discovery using Amazon EC2 and HashiCorp Consul

These days, large organizations typically have microservices environments that span across cloud platforms, on-premises data centers, and colocation facilities. The reasons for this vary but frequently include latency, local support structures, and historic architectural decisions. However, due to the complex nature of these environments, efficient mechanisms for service discovery and configuration management must be implemented […]

Invoking Asynchronous External APIs architecture

Invoking asynchronous external APIs with AWS Step Functions

External vendor APIs can help organizations streamline operations, reduce costs, and provide better services to their customers. But many challenges exist in integrating with third-party services such as security, reliability, and cost. Organizations must ensure their systems can handle performance issues or downtime. In some cases, calling an external API may have associated costs such […]