Assessment
Review cloud architecture decisions against system needs and operational reality.
Cloud architecture
Use the cloud to solve architectural problems, not create new ones.
Cloud platforms offer an enormous number of architectural choices. The challenge is choosing the right balance of scalability, resilience, security, operational effort, cost and development complexity.
Cloud architecture decisions
AWS architecture
Design AWS solutions, migration approaches and cloud-native service boundaries.
Serverless
Evaluate Lambda, API Gateway and managed services where the workload fits.
Containers
Assess container-based architectures, deployment models and team responsibilities.
Identity & access
Define security, IAM and trust boundaries at the right level of detail.
Resilience
Reason about scaling, failure modes, dependencies and recovery approaches.
Observability
Make systems understandable in production through operational signals.
Technology evaluation
Choose services based on system characteristics instead of trends.
Trade-offs
Choosing between valid options
Architecture decisions rarely have one universally correct answer. Lambda or ECS depends on workload characteristics, execution model, scaling requirements, operational model, deployment needs, team capabilities and other constraints.
My approach is to make trade-offs explicit and choose technology based on the characteristics of the system.
AWS experience
Migration, serverless and architecture assessment
My AWS work has included application migration, serverless architecture, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFormation, authentication, architecture assessment and modernization.
I also hold training/certification credentials in AWS Well-Architected and Developing on AWS.
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