AWS Architecture Blog
Announcing updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework
We are excited to announce the availability of improved AWS Well-Architected Framework guidance. In this update, we have made changes across all six pillars of the framework: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. A brief history The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a collection of best practices that allow customers to evaluate and improve the design, implementation, and operations […]
Optimizing fleet utilization with Amazon Location Service and HERE Technologies
The fleet management market is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15.5 percent—from 25.5 billion US dollars in 2022 to USD 52.4 billion in 2027. Optimizing how your organization uses its vehicle fleet is important for logistics and service providers such as last mile, middle mile, and field services. In […]
Software-defined edge architecture for connected vehicles
To remain competitive in a marketplace that increasingly views transportation as a service emphasizing customer experience, vehicle capabilities and mobility applications need to improve and increase value over time, much like the internet of things and smart phones have done. Vehicle manufacturers and fleet operators are responding to this change by using data to inform […]
Creating scalable architectures with AWS IoT Greengrass stream manager
Designing a scalable, global, real-time, distributed system to process millions of messages from a variety of critical devices can complicate architectures. Collecting large data streams or image recognition from the edge also requires scalable solutions. AWS IoT Core is designed to handle large numbers of Internet of things (IoT) devices sending a few messages per […]
Let’s Architect! Streamlining business with migration and modernization
Many customers migrate their systems to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to increase their competitive edge and drive business value. To maximize the benefits of a cloud migration, companies tend to move their applications in conjunction with modernization initiatives. These joined efforts help your applications gain more agility, scalability, and resilience. Modernizing the portfolio of workloads […]
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 […]
Genomics workflows, Part 5: automated benchmarking
Launching and running genomics workflows can take hours and involves large pools of compute instances that process data at a petabyte scale. Benchmarking helps you evaluate workflow performance and discover faster and cheaper ways of running them. In practice, performance evaluations happen irregularly because of the associated heavy lifting. In this blog post, we discuss […]
Realtime monitoring of microservices and cloud-native applications with IBM Instana SaaS on AWS
Customers are adopting microservices architecture to build innovative and scalable applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). These microservices applications are deployed across multiple AWS services, and customers are looking for comprehensive observability solutions that can help them effectively monitor and manage the performance of their applications in real-time. IBM Instana is a fully automated application […]
Disaster Recovery Solutions with AWS managed services, Part 3: Multi-Site Active/Passive
Welcome to the third post of a multi-part series that addresses disaster recovery (DR) strategies with the use of AWS-managed services to align with customer requirements of performance, cost, and compliance. In part two of this series, we introduced a DR concept that utilizes managed services through a backup and restore strategy with multiple Regions. […]
Let’s Architect! Architecting a data mesh
Data architectures were mainly designed around technologies rather than business domains in the past. This changed in 2019, when Zhamak Dehghani introduced the data mesh. Data mesh is an application of the Domain-Driven-Design (DDD) principles to data architectures: Data is organized into data domains and the data is the product that the team owns and […]