AWS Architecture and Best Practices

Introduction
AWS Well Architected Framework
AWS Architecture Blog, Official Blog, AWS Labs, AWS Quick Start
AWS Case Studies
AWS Best Practices and Tips. AWS Performance. Handling AWS Failures and Outages

Introduction

AWS application-architecture
Optimizing your AWS Infrastructure for Sustainability, Part I: Compute
Optimizing your AWS Infrastructure for Sustainability, Part II: Storage
AWS App2Container: Migrate your Applications to Containers at Scale
dev.to: How Well-Architected Enables Junior Engineers
This is My Architecture Innovative cloud architectures from AWS partners and customers. ‘This is My Architecture’ is a video series that showcases innovative architectural solutions on the AWS Cloud by customers and partners. Each episode examines the most interesting and technically creative elements of each cloud architecture.
Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 1, Compute, Networking, and Security
Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 2, Data and Replication
Let’s Architect! Architecting microservices with containers Microservices structure an application as a set of independently deployable services. They speed up software development and allow architects to quickly update systems to adhere to changing business requirements. According to best practices, the different services should be loosely coupled, organized around business capabilities, independently deployable, and owned by a single team. If applied correctly, there are multiple advantages to using microservices. However, working with microservices can also bring challenges. In this edition of Let’s Architect!, we explore the advantages, mental models, and challenges deriving from microservices with containers.
Strategies for consolidating AWS environments
Maintain visibility over the use of cloud architecture patterns Cloud platform and enterprise architecture teams use architecture patterns to provide guidance for different use cases. Cloud architecture patterns are typically aggregates of multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, such as Elastic Load Balancing with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or Amazon Relational Database Service with Amazon ElastiCache. In a large organization, cloud platform teams often have limited governance over cloud deployments, and, therefore, lack control or visibility over the actual cloud pattern adoption in their organization.
Architecture patterns for consuming private APIs cross-account
awstip.com: Increase Security and Efficiency with a 3-Tier Cloud Architecture
github.com/ministryofjustice: Modernisation Platform - Architecture Decisions This is our architecture decision log, made during the design and build of the Modernisation Platform.

AWS Well Architected Framework

AWS Well Architected Framework
- nops.io: Discover How to Compare Cloud Workloads for Risk Management on AWS The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides best practices guidance to optimize workloads based on the Framework’s five pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
aws.amazon.com/well-architected-tool: AWS Well-Architected Tool Do couple of WAR (Well-Architect Review) for public cloud. Basically it is to scan the cloud on 5-6 KPI’s : Performance, Cost, Operations, Business etc..
infoq.com: AWS Updates the Well-Architected Framework

AWS Architecture Blog, Official Blog, AWS Labs, AWS Quick Start

AWS Case Studies

Thomas Publishing Case Study After moving to AWS, we were able to shut down our largest data center, eliminating hundreds of thousands of dollars in associated real estate, facility operations, and power and cooling costs.

AWS Best Practices and Tips. AWS Performance. Handling AWS Failures and Outages

AWS Tips I Wish I’d Known Before I Started (Feb 2014) A collection of random tips for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that I wish I’d been told a few years ago, based on what I’ve learned by building and deploying various applications on AWS.
DZone: 5 Tips for Better AWS Performance The Ngnix team has a nice list of tips for better performance when using the AWS services. Some of them are related to Ngnix, but others are completely usable for anyone.
DZone: Dude, Where’s My Performance?
DZone: A Guide to Performance Challenges with AWS EC2: Part 1
DZone: A Guide to Performance Challenges With AWS EC2: Part 2 Using Amazon Web Services? Learn how to get your Elastic Compute Cloud instances to perform better than your competitors.
DZone: A Guide to Performance Challenges With AWS EC2: Part 3 In the second part of his guide covering performance challenges in AWS EC2, Saba Anees covers instances and the right applications for your workloads.
DZone: A Guide to Performance Challenges With AWS EC2: Part 4 In the final part of his series covering performance challenges with AWS EC2, Saba Anees goes over poor ELB performance and handling AWS failures and outages.
The Truth About Downtime in the Cloud
thenewstack.io: Avoid the 5 Most Common Amazon Web Services Misconfigurations in Build-Time
zarantech.com: Top 5 Pillars of AWS Well-Architected Structure
foreseeti.com: How to become and stay AWS well architected in a smart way
AWS Architecture Blog: Use templated answers to perform Well-Architected reviews at scale
medium.com/@buraktahtacioglu: AWS Well-Architected Framework — AWS Roadmap
cbui.dev: Every company has an “old” production AWS account When companies are in the startup phase, they create their root AWS account and put everything in it. Later on, it might become necessary for the company to have SOC2 certification. These certifications’ audit and security requirements require a lockdown of the root AWS account. It is an expensive and painful migration from the root AWS account to a new production account. I’ve seen it at Venmo and Flex. If you’re starting today, I highly recommend setting up your AWS organizations and a sub-account under your root account. This will save you potentially hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in migration costs down the line.