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A collection of posts to help you design and build sustainable cloud architecture

Post Syndicated from Bonnie McClure original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/a-collection-of-posts-to-help-you-design-and-build-sustainable-cloud-architecture/

We’re celebrating Earth Day 2022 from 4/22 through 4/29 with posts that highlight how to build, maintain, and refine your workloads for sustainability.


A blog can be a great starting point for you in finding and implementing a particular solution; learning about new features, services, and products; keeping up with the latest trends and ideas; or even understanding and resolving a tricky problem. Today, as part of our Earth Day celebration, we’re showcasing blog posts that do just that and more.

Optimize AI/ML workloads for sustainability series

Training artificial intelligence (AI) services and machine learning (ML) workloads uses a lot of energy, but they are also one of the best tools we have to fight the effects of climate change. For example, we’ve used ML to help deliver food and pharmaceuticals safely and with much less waste, reduce the cost and risk involved in maintaining wind farms, restore at-risk ecosystems, and predict and understand extreme weather.

In this series of three blog posts, Benoit, Eddie, Dan, and Brendan provide guidance from the Sustainability Pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework to reduce the carbon footprint of your AI/ML workloads.

ML lifecycle

Machine learning lifecycle

Improve workload sustainability with services and features from re:Invent 2021

Creating a well-architected, sustainable workload is a continuous process. This blog post highlight services and features from re:Invent 2021 that will help you design and optimize your AWS workloads from a sustainability perspective.

Optimizing Your IoT Devices for Environmental Sustainability

To become more environmentally sustainable, customers commonly introduce Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These connected devices collect and analyze data from commercial buildings, factories, homes, cars, and other locations to measure, understand, and improve operational efficiency. However, you must consider their environmental impact when using these devices. They must be manufactured, shipped, and installed; they consume energy during operations; and they must eventually be disposed of. They are also a challenge to maintain—an expert may need physical access to the device to diagnose issues and update it. This post considers device properties that influence an IoT device’s footprint throughout its lifecycle and shows you how Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT services can help.

Let’s Architect! Architecting for Sustainability

This first post in the Let’s Architect! series gathers content to help software architects and tech leaders explore new ideas, case studies, and technical approaches. Luca, Laura, Vittori, and Zamira provide materials to help you address sustainability challenges and design sustainable architectures.

Optimizing your AWS Infrastructure for Sustainability Series

As organizations align their business with sustainable practices, it is important to review every functional area. If you’re building, deploying, and maintaining an IT stack, improving its environmental impact requires informed decision making.

This three-part blog series provides strategies to optimize your AWS architecture within compute, storage, and networking.

The shared responsibility model for sustainability shows how it is a shared responsibility between AWS and customers

The shared responsibility model for sustainability shows how it is a shared responsibility between AWS and customers

IBM Hackathon Produces Innovative Sustainability Solutions on AWS

Our consulting partner, IBM, organized the “Sustainability Applied 2021” hackathon in September 2021. This three-day event aimed to generate new ideas, create reference architecture patterns using AWS Cloud services, and produce sustainable solutions.

This post highlights four reference architectures that were developed during the hackathon. These architectures show you how IBM hack teams used AWS services to resolve real-world sustainability challenges. We hope these architectures inspire you to help address other sustainability challenges with your own solutions.

Women write blogs: a selection of posts from AWS Solutions Architects

Post Syndicated from Bonnie McClure original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/women-write-blogs/

This International Women’s Day, we’re featuring more than a week’s worth of posts that highlight female builders and leaders. We’re showcasing women in the industry who are building, creating, and, above all, inspiring, empowering, and encouraging everyone—especially women and girls—in tech.


A blog can be a great starting point for you in finding and implementing a particular solution; learning about new features, services, and products; keeping up with the latest trends and ideas; or even understanding and resolving a tricky problem. Today, as part of our International Women’s Day celebration, we’re showcasing blogs written by women that do just that and more.

We’ve included all kinds of posts for you to peruse:

  • Architecture overview posts
  • Best practices posts
  • Customer/partner (co-written/sponsored/partnered) posts that highlight architectural solutions built with AWS services
  • How-to tutorials that explain the steps the reader needs to take to complete a task

Architecture overviews

How a Grocer Can Deliver Personalized Experiences with Recipes

by Chara Gravani and Stefano Vozza

Chara and Stefano bring us a way to differentiate and reinvent the customer journey for a grocery retailer. Their solution uses Amazon Personalize to deliver personalized recipe recommendations to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and in turn, increase revenue. They consider a customer who is shopping for groceries online. As they place products in their basket, they are presented with a list of recipes that contain the same ingredients as those products added to the basket. The suggested recipes are then personalized based on the customer’s profile and historical product preferences.

Best practices posts

Best practices for migrating self-hosted Prometheus on Amazon EKS to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

by Elamaran Shanmugam, Deval Parikh, and Ramesh Kumar Venkatraman

With a focus on the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Elamaran, Deval, and Ramesh examine some of the best practices to follow if you’re moving a self-managed Prometheus workload on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus.

Optimizing your AWS Infrastructure for Sustainability Series

by Katja Philipp, Aleena Yunus, Otis Antoniou, and Ceren Tahtasiz

As organizations align their business with sustainable practices, it is important to review every functional area. If you’re building, deploying, and maintaining an IT stack, improving its environmental impact requires informed decision making. In this three-part blog series, Katja, Aleena, Otis, and Cern provide strategies to optimize your AWS architecture within compute, storage, and networking.

Customer/partner posts

Scaling DLT to 1M TPS on AWS: Optimizing a Regulated Liabilities Network

by Erica Salinas and Jack Iu

Erica and Jack discuss how they partnered with SETL to jointly stand up a basic Regulated Liabilities Network (RLN) and refine the scalability of the environment to at least 1 million transactions per second. They show you how scaling characteristics were achieved while maintaining the business requirements of atomicity and finality and discuss how each RLN component was optimized for high performance.

How-to tutorials

Monitor and visualise building occupancy with AWS IoT Core, Amazon QuickSight and Raspberry Pi

by Jamila Jamilova

Occupancy monitoring in buildings is a valuable tool across different industries. For example, museums can analyze occupancy data in near real-time to understand the popularity and number of visitors to decide where a particular gallery should be located. To help with cases like this, Jamila brings you a solution that monitors how building space is being utilized. It shows how busy each area of a building gets during different times of the day based on a motion sensor’s location. This device, a Raspberry Pi with a passive infrared (PIR) sensor, senses motion in direct proximity (in other words, if a human has moved in or out of the sensor’s range) and will generate data that is stored, analyzed, and visualized to help you understand how best to use your space.

Create an iOS tracker application with Amazon Location Service and AWS Amplify

by Panna Shetty and Fernando Rocha

Emergency management teams venture into dangerous situations to rescue those in need, potentially risking their own lives. To keep themselves safe during an event where they cannot easily track each other by line of sight, a muster point is established as a designated safety zone, or a geofence. This geofence may change in response to evolving conditions. One way to improve this process is automating member tracking and response activity, so that emergency managers can quickly account for all members and ensure they are safe. Panna and Fernando bring you a solution to apply to this situation and others like it. It uses Amazon Location Service to create a serverless architecture that is capable of tracking the user’s current location and identify if they are in a safe area or not.

Optimize workforce in your store using Amazon Rekognition

by Laura Reith and Kayla Jing

Retailers often need to make decisions to improve the in-store customer experience through personnel management. Having too few or too many employees working can be detrimental to the business. When store traffic outpaces staffing, it can result in long checkout lines and limited customer interface, creating a poor customer experience. The opposite can be true as well by having too many employees during periods of low traffic, which generates wasted operating costs. In this post, Laura and Kayla show you how to use Amazon Rekognition and AWS DeepLens to detect and analyze occupancy in a retail business to optimize workforce utilization.

Adding Build MLOps workflows with Amazon SageMaker projects, GitLab, and GitLab pipelines

by Lauren Mullennex, Indrajit Ghosalkar, and Kirit Thadaka

In this post, Lauren, Indrajit, and Kirit walk you through using a custom Amazon SageMaker machine learning operations project template to automatically build and configure a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. This pipeline incorporates your existing CI/CD tooling with SageMaker features for data preparation, model training, model evaluation, and model deployment. In their use case, they focus on using GitLab and GitLab pipelines with SageMaker projects and pipelines.

Deploying Sample UI Forms using React, Formik, and AWS CDK

by Kevin Rivera, Mark Carlson, Shruti Arora, and Britney Tong

Many companies use UI forms to collect customer data for account registrations, online shopping, and surveys. These forms can be difficult to write, maintain, and test. To help with this, Kevin, Mark, Shruti, and Britney show you how to use the JavaScript libraries React and Formik. These third-party libraries provide front-end developers with tools to implement simple forms for a user interface.

Multi-Region Migration using AWS Application Migration Service

by Shreya Pathak and Medha Shree

Shreya and Medha demonstrate how AWS Application Migration Service simplifies, expedites, and reduces the cost of migrating Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)-hosted workloads from one AWS Region to another. It integrates with AWS Migration Hub, which allows you to organize your servers into applications. With the migration services they discuss, you can track the progress of your migration at the server and application level, even as you move servers into multiple Regions.

Tracking Overall Equipment Effectiveness with AWS IoT Analytics and Amazon QuickSight

by Shailaja Suresh and Michael Brown

To drive process efficiencies and optimize costs, manufacturing organizations need a scalable approach to access data across disparate silos across their organization. In this post, Shailaja and Michael demonstrate how overall equipment effectiveness can be calculated, monitored, and scaled out using two key services: AWS IoT Analytics and Amazon QuickSight.

Use AnalyticsIQ with Amazon QuickSight to gain insights for your business

by Sumitha AP

Sumitha shows you how to use the AnalyticsIQ Social Determinants of Health Sample Data dataset to gain insights into society’s health and wellness and how to generate easy-to-understand visualizations using QuickSight that could improve healthcare professionals’ decision making.

We’ve got more content for International Women’s Day!

For more than a week we’re sharing content created by women. Check it out!

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Celebrate International Women’s Day all week with the Architecture Blog

Post Syndicated from Bonnie McClure original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/celebrate-international-womens-day-with-us-on-the-architecture-blog/

Companies committed to diversity (gender or otherwise) tend to be more creative and innovative and have higher retention and engagement rates. Diverse leadership can provide excellent role models for younger people looking for a career in STEM, those who are transitioning into the industry from an “unconventional” career path, or those who are returning to work.

This International Women’s Day, we’re featuring more than a week’s worth of posts that highlight female builders and leaders. We’re showcasing women in the industry who are building, creating, and, above all, inspiring, empowering, and encouraging everyone—especially women and girls—in tech.

Though the number of women in tech roles is slowly increasing, they are still underrepresented. As shown in the graph that follows, women worldwide hold, on average, 21% of IT and technical roles.

Female representation in technology organizations in 2021, selected countries

Female representation in technology organizations in 2021, selected countries

This number drops to 12% when you look at cloud computing roles like Developers/Engineers, Data Engineers, System Administrators, DevOps Engineers, and Architects.

Share of male and female workers across professional clusters

Share of male and female workers across professional clusters

The technology industry has a challenge—but also an opportunity—when it comes to equal gender representation. By highlighting the work that women are doing right now to slowly but steadily change what it looks like (literally and figuratively) to work in tech and with continued commitment and effort, we can create a path to success for everyone.

She Builds Tech Skills re:Invent Roundup

AWS She Builds Tech Skills is a skill development program aimed for builders and cloud enthusiasts to create an inclusive environment to learn and develop cloud skills. Their mission is to build a community with world class leaders and influence diversity representation amongst technical roles in technology.

To kick off this week, we’re featuring a video from She Builds Tech Skills, hosted by Mai Nishitani and May Kyaw, Solutions Architects at AWS. In the video, they chat with six female Solutions Architects from around the world about their favorite services and features from re:Invent 2021, and they give advice on how to get started using these services in your architectures.

As a bonus, Mai and May followed up with these women to chat about how they’re celebrating International Women’s Day this week and every week.

Poornima Chand, Senior Solutions ArchitectPoornima Chand

Poornima Chand is a Senior Solutions Architect in the Strategic Accounts Solutions team at AWS. She works with customers to help solve their unique challenges using AWS technology solutions. She enjoys architecting and building scalable solutions. Her focus areas include Serverless, High Performance Computing and Machine Learning.

How does she encourage and mentor women in tech and beyond? Poornima is an active mentor in the AWS She Builds CloudUp program. She loves to celebrate women’s achievements and plans to spend International Women’s Day interacting with and learning from Women@Amazon and women from customer teams.

Ai-Linh Le, Solutions ArchitectAi-Linh Li

Ai-Linh Le is a Solutions Architect based in Sydney, Australia. She started her career as a software engineer and still likes to be hands-on in developing and building solutions and demos. She enjoys working with customers and helping them to build solutions and solve challenges. Her areas of focus include data analytics, machine learning, and DevOps.

How does she encourage and mentor women in tech and beyond? Ai-Linh is passionate about continuous learning and exploring new technologies, and is a mentor in the AWS She Builds CloudUp program.

Nelli Lovchikova, Enterprise Solutions ArchitectNelli Lovchikova

Nelli has nearly twenty years of experience helping companies build amazing things as a software engineer and architect. She strongly believes in engineering excellence and continuous learning and improvement.

How does she encourage and mentor women in tech and beyond? Nelli constantly researches and experiments with bleeding-edge technologies and ideas and is always happy to take other people on that journey with me, share my findings, and inspiration.

Natalie White, Enterprise Solutions ArchitectNatalie White

Natalie White is an Enterprise Solutions Architect in southern California. Her 15-year software development career across four industry verticals prior to joining AWS and her advocacy for AWS Developer Tools and Infrastructure as Code services help her earn trust with her customers’ builders and executive stakeholders and accelerate their time to done.

How does she encourage and mentor women in tech and beyond? Natalie is an active member in the Society of Women Engineers and a leader of her daughter’s Girl Scout troop, so she will celebrate International Women’s Day with Women@Amazon and across engineering domains, industry verticals, and age groups.

Deval Parikh. Senior Enterprise Solutions ArchitectDeval S Parikh

Deval Parikh is a Sr Enterprise Solutions Architect at AWS based out of Los Angeles. She is passionate about helping enterprises re-imagine their businesses in the cloud by leading them with strategic architectural guidance and building prototypes as an AWS expert.

How does she encourage and mentor women in tech and beyond? Deval is passionate about helping women STEM roles. She leads various affinity groups in AWS North America, including Women At Solutions Architecture and YouthTech. On weekends, she teaches high school and middle school students programming in Python and Spark. Outside of work, she loves to paint with oil on canvas and hiking with her friends. You can view some of her artwork at www.devalparikh.com.

Viktoria Semaan, Senior Partner Solutions ArchitectSemaan

As a Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Viktoria is helping AWS Strategic ISV Partners to build joint innovative solutions on AWS. She has 13+ years of experience in solutions architecture, leading multi-site automation and transformation projects. She is a public speaker and content creator and often shares learning opportunities on social media.

How does she encourage and mentor women in tech and beyond? Viktoria is passionate about coaching, talent development, and mentoring others. She is a mentor at the AWS She Builds CloudUp program, which focuses on empowering women and helps them to learn AWS services and products and become AWS Certified.

Would you like to know more?

If you want to hear more about AWS She Builds Tech Skills, please reach out to May or Mai on LinkedIn for more information, subscribe to their YouTube channel for the latest videos.

We’ve got more content for International Women’s Day!

Tomorrow we have a technical post, Deploying service-mesh-based architectures using AWS App Mesh and Amazon ECS from Kesha Williams, an AWS Hero and award-winning software engineer.

Later this week, we’ll share:

  • A collection of several blog posts written and co-authored by women
  • Curated content from the Let’s Architect! team and a live Twitter chat
  • A post on Women at AWS – Diverse Backgrounds, Common Goal of Becoming Solutions Architects
  • Another post on Building your brand as a SA

Enjoy!

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Top 10 Architecture Blog Posts of 2021

Post Syndicated from Bonnie McClure original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/top-10-architecture-blog-posts-of-2021/

The AWS Architecture Blog highlights best practices and provides architectural guidance. We publish thought leadership pieces and how-tos. Check out the AWS Architecture Monthly Magazine, also published by our team, which offers a selection of the best new technical content from AWS!

A big thank you to you, our readers, for spending time on our blog this past quarter. Of course, we wouldn’t have content for you to read without our hard-working AWS Solutions Architects and other blog post writers either, so thank you to them as well! Without further ado, the following 10 posts were the top Architecture Blog posts published in 2021!

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#10: Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part IV: Multi-site Active/Active

by Seth Eliot

You’ll notice a recurring theme in this post—Seth’s four-part DR series is really popular! Throughout the series, Seth shows you different strategies to prepare your workload for disaster events like natural disasters like earthquakes or floods, technical failures such as power or network loss, and human actions such as inadvertent or unauthorized modifications.

In Part IV, Seth teaches you how to implement an active/active strategy to run your workload and serve requests in two or more distinct sites. Like other DR strategies, this enables your workload to remain available despite disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions.

#9: Scaling up a Serverless Web Crawler and Search Engine

by Jack Stevenson

Building a search engine can be a challenge. You must continually scrape the web and index its content so it can be retrieved quickly in response to a user’s query. In this post, Jack describes how to implement this in a way that avoids infrastructure complexity while remaining elastic with a serverless search engine that can scale to crawl and index large web pages.

#8: Managing Asynchronous Workflows with a REST API

by Scott Gerring

While building REST APIs, architects often discover that they have particular operations that have to run in the background outside of the request processing scope. In this post, Scott shows you common patterns for handling REST API operations, their advantages/disadvantages, and their typical Serverless on AWS implementations.

#7: Data Caching Across Microservices in a Serverless Architecture

by Irfan Saleem, Pallavi Nargund, and Peter Buonora

In this post, Irfan, Pallavi, and Peter discuss a couple of customer use cases that use Serverless on AWS offerings to maintain a cache close to the microservices layer. This improves performance by reducing or eliminating the need for the real-time backend calls and by reducing latency and service-to-service communication.

#6: Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part III: Pilot Light and Warm Standby

by Seth Eliot

Part III of Seth’s DR series discusses two strategies to prepare your workload for a disaster event: pilot light and warm standby. This post shows you how to implement these strategies that help you limit data loss and downtime and how to get the most out of your set up.

#5: Issues to Avoid When Implementing Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda

by Andrei Maksimov

In the post, Andrei highlights eight common anti-patterns (solutions that may look like the right solution but end up being less effective than intended). He provides recommendations to avoid these patterns to ensure that your system is performing at its best.

#4: Using Route 53 Private Hosted Zones for Cross-account Multi-region Architectures

by Anandprasanna Gaitonde and John Bickle

In this post, Anandprasanna and John present an architecture that provides a unified view of DNS while allowing different AWS accounts to manage subdomains. They show you how hybrid cloud environments can utilize the features of Route 53 Private Hosted Zones to allow for scalability and high availability for business applications.

#3: Micro-frontend Architectures on AWS

by Bryant Bost

Despite microservice architectures’ popularity, many frontend applications are still built in a monolithic style. In this post, Bryant shows you how micro-frontend architectures introduce many of the familiar benefits of microservice development to frontend applications. This simplifies the process of building complex frontend applications by allowing you to manage small, independent components.

#2: Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part I: Strategies for Recovery in the Cloud

by Seth Eliot

Part I of Seth’s DR series gives you an overview of each strategy in the series (backup and restore, pilot light, standby, multi-site active/active) and how to select the best strategy for your business needs. Disaster events pose a threat to your workload availability, but by using AWS Cloud services you can mitigate or remove these threats.

#1: Overview of Data Transfer Costs for Common Architectures

by Birender Pal, Sebastian Gorczynski, and Dennis Schmidt

With 65,281 views, this team has definitely earned their top spot! Data transfer charges are often overlooked while architecting a solution in AWS. Considering data transfer charges while making architectural decisions can help save costs. This post will help you identify potential data transfer charges you may encounter while operating your workload on AWS.

Thank you!

Thanks again to all our readers and blog post writers. Your contributions to the blog are immensely valuable to all our customers! Keep on writing!

We look forward to continuing to learn and build amazing things together in 2022.

Top 5 Architecture Blog Posts for Q4 2021

Post Syndicated from Bonnie McClure original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/top-5-architecture-blog-posts-for-q4-2021/

The goal of the AWS Architecture Blog is to highlight best practices and provide architectural guidance. We publish thought leadership and how to pieces that encourage readers to discover other technical documentation such as solutions and managed solutions, other AWS blogs, videos, reference architectures, whitepapers, and guides, training and certification, case studies, and the AWS Architecture Monthly Magazine. We welcome your contributions!

A big thank you to you, our readers, for spending time on our blog this past quarter. Of course, we wouldn’t have content for you to read without our hard-working writers either, so thank you to them as well!

Without further ado, the following five posts were the top Architecture Blog posts published in Q4 (October through December 2021).

#5: Disaster Recovery with AWS Managed Services, Part I: Single Region

by Dhruv Bakshi and Brent Kim

This 3-part blog series discusses disaster recovery (DR) strategies that you can implement to ensure your data is safe and that your workload stays available during a disaster. Part I discusses the single AWS Region/multi-Availability Zone (AZ) DR strategy.

Figure 1. Single Region/multi-AZ with secondary Region for backups

Single Region/multi-AZ with secondary Region for backups

#4: Exploring Data Transfer Costs for AWS Managed Databases

by Dennis Schmidt, Sebastian Gorczynski, and Birender Pal

When selecting managed database services in AWS, it’s important to understand how data transfer charges are calculated – whether it’s relational, key-value, document, in-memory, graph, time series, wide column, or ledger.

This blog outlines the data transfer charges for several AWS managed database offerings to help you choose the most cost-effective setup for your workload.

Figure-7.-Amazon-DocumentDB-data-transfer

Amazon DocumentDB data transfer

#3: Simplifying Multi-account CI/CD Deployments using AWS Proton

by Marvin Fernandes and Abi Betancourt

This blog shows you how to simplify multi-account deployments in an environment that is segregated between platform and development teams. It shows you how you can use one consistent and standardized continuous delivery pipeline with AWS Proton.

Figure 4. AWS Proton deploys service into multi-account environment through standardized continuous delivery pipeline

AWS Proton deploys service into multi-account environment through standardized continuous delivery pipeline

#2: Serverless Architecture for a Structured Data Mining Solution

by Uri Rotem

This post shows a pipeline of services, built on top of a serverless architecture that locate, collect, and unify data. This architecture supports large-scale datasets. Because it is a serverless solution, it is also secure and cost effective.

Figure 8. Architecture diagram of entire data collection and classification process

Architecture diagram of entire data collection and classification process

#1: Introducing the new AWS Well-Architected Machine Learning Lens

by Haleh Najafzadeh

This whitepaper provides you with a set of established cloud and technology agnostic best practices. You can apply this guidance and architectural principles when designing your machine learning workloads, or after your workloads have entered production as part of continuous improvement. The paper includes guidance and resources to help you implement these best practices on AWS.

Figure 2. Machine Learning Lifecycle phases with expanded components

Machine Learning Lifecycle phases with expanded components

Thank you!

Thanks again to all our readers and blog post writers! We look forward to continuing to learn and build amazing things together in 2022.

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Architecture Monthly Magazine: Agriculture

Post Syndicated from Bonnie McClure original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/architecture-monthly-magazine-agriculture/

Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps agriculture customers forecast supply and demand and create and maintain responsive, resilient food systems. This edition of Architecture Monthly focuses on the agriculture industry and their role in providing products to the world that are nutritious, healthy, accessible, affordable, and sustainable.

We’d like to thank our expert, Karen Hildebrand, Worldwide Tech Lead for Agriculture at AWS, for her contributions to the Ask an Expert column.

Please give us your feedback! Include your comments on the Amazon Kindle page. You can view past issues and reach out to [email protected] any time with your questions and comments.

In this month’s issue:

  • Ask an Expert: Karen Hildebrand, PhD, Worldwide Tech Lead for Agriculture at AWS
  • Case Study: AGCO Lowers Costs, Boosts Speed, and Increases Retention Using Amazon Kinesis Services
  • Quick Start: Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework
  • Blog: Building a Controlled Environment Agriculture Platform
  • Case Study: ProRefrigeration Extends Their AWS IoT Capabilities to the Edge with CEI America
  • Quick Start: Genomics Tertiary Analysis and Machine Learning Using Amazon SageMaker
  • Solution: Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning
  • Blog: Building Machine Learning at the Edge Applications using Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager and IoT Greengrass v2
  • Blog: Processing satellite imagery with serverless architecture
  • Videos:
    • The Future of Fresh Fruit Harvest: A Talk with FFRobotics
    • Seeing is Believing – the Rise of Data & Analytics in Agriculture
    • The Season for Vintner Innovation: Viticulture & More with E.J. Gallo Winery
    • Farming Innovation in Ireland: A Talk with Herdwatch
    • Voice Activated Agriculture
    • Amazon Prime – Clarkson’s Farm Season 1

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Architecture Monthly Magazine: Aerospace

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The aerospace and space industries have changed considerably since the early days of jet travel and the Apollo missions. New technology is making space and sky more accessible than ever—startups are reaching skyward and towards the stars with seemingly every day new, innovative ideas.

This month’s issue of Architecture Monthly brings you curated content to highlight some of these ideas and innovations from our commercial aerospace, aerospace defense, and space leaders, including the newly launched AWS for Aerospace and Satellite organization. We highlight new and updated technology, practical solutions and their applications, and innovative companies that are working towards exploring and learning about the final frontier. Get inspired!

We’d like to thank our experts, Scott Eberhardt, Worldwide Tech Leader, Aerospace; Shayn Hawthorne, Sr. Mgr., Aerospace Tech Leader; and Buffy Wajvoda, Head of SA – Space & Satellite for their contributions.

Please give us your feedback! Include your comments on the Amazon Kindle page. You can view past issues and reach out to [email protected] anytime with your questions and comments.

In this month’s issue:

  • Ask an Expert: Scott Eberhardt, Worldwide Tech Lead for Aerospace at AWS; Shayn Hawthorne, Space Technology Leader for AWS Aerospace and Satellite Solutions Division; and Buffy Wajvoda, Worldwide Leader for Aerospace and Satellite Solutions Architecture at AWS
  • Website: Introduction to AWS for Aerospace and Satellite
  • Blog: Capella uses space to bring you closer to Earth
  • Reference Architecture: Run Machine Learning Algorithms with Satellite Data
  • Blog: UAE Mars mission uses AWS to advance scientific discoveries
  • Solution: AWS re:Invent 2020: Detecting extreme weather events from space
  • Blog: Announcing the AWS Space Accelerator for startups
  • Reference Architecture: Electro-Optical Imagery Reference Architecture
  • Case Study: Avio Aero Accelerates Business Growth with HPC Solution on AWS
  • Reference Architecture: Connected Aircraft
  • Case Study: Joby Aviation Uses AWS to Revolutionize Transportation
  • Whitepaper: Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) on AWS: From Migration to Innovation
  • Reference Architecture: Using Computer Vision for Product Quality Analysis in Plants
  • Videos:
    • AWS re:Invent 2020: Advancing the future of space in the cloud
    • AWS Connected Aircraft Overview
    • AWS Vision for Model-based Engineering in Aerospace
    • Avio Aero, a GE Aviation Business: Serverless Application to Manage Expense Purchase Approvals
    • Cybersecurity and Compliance for Aerospace
    • Product Lifecycle Management for Aerospace

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Top 5 Architecture Blog Posts for Q3 2021

Post Syndicated from Bonnie McClure original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/top-5-architecture-blog-posts-for-q3-2021/

The goal of the AWS Architecture Blog is to highlight best practices and provide architectural guidance. We publish thought leadership pieces that encourage readers to discover other technical documentation such as solutions and managed solutions, other AWS blogs, videos, reference architectures, whitepapers, and guides, training and certification, case studies, and the AWS Architecture Monthly Magazine. We welcome your contributions!

Field Notes is a series of posts within the Architecture Blog that provides hands-on technical guidance from AWS Solutions Architects, consultants, and technical account managers based on their experiences in the field solving real-world business problems for customers.

A big thank you to you, our readers, for spending time on our blog this past quarter. Of course, we wouldn’t have content for you to read without our hard-working AWS Solutions Architects and other blog post writers either, so thank you to them as well! Without further ado, the following five posts were the top Architecture Blog and Field Notes blog posts published in Q3 (July through September 2021).

#5: Choosing Your VPC Endpoint Strategy for Amazon S3

by Jeff Harman and Gilles-Kuessan Satchivi

In this blog post, Jeff and Gilles-Kuessan guide you through selecting the right virtual private connection (VPC) endpoint type to access Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). A VPC endpoint allows workloads in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to connect to supported public AWS services or third-party applications over the AWS network.

#4: Using VPC Endpoints in Multi-Region Architectures with Route 53 Resolver

by Michael Haken

You want a straightforward way to use VPC endpoints and endpoint policies for all Regions uniformly and consistently. In this post, Michael shows you how Route 53 Resolver solves this challenge using DNS. This solution ensures that requests to AWS services that support VPC endpoints stay within the VPC network, regardless of their Region.

#3: Architecting a Highly Available, Serverless Microservices-Based Ecommerce Site

by Senthil Kumar and Ajit Puthiyavettle

The number of ecommerce vendors is growing globally, and these vendors often handle large traffic at different times of the day and on different days of the year. This, in addition to building, managing, and maintaining IT infrastructure on-premises data centers can present challenges to businesses’ scalability and growth. In this blog post, Senthil and Ajit provide you a Serverless on AWS solution that offloads the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing resources and ensures your business’ architecture can handle peak traffic.

#2: Data Caching Across Microservices in a Serverless Architecture

by Irfan Saleem, Pallavi Nargund, and Peter Buonora

In this blog post, Irfan, Pallavi, and Peter discuss a couple of customer use cases that use Serverless on AWS offerings to maintain a cache close to the microservices layer. This improves performance by reducing or eliminating the need for the real-time backend calls and by reducing latency and service-to-service communication.

#1: Overview of Data Transfer Charges for Common Architectures 

With over 35,000 views and rising, this post is vastly outpacing all other contenders this quarter. In this post, Birender, Sebastian, and Dennis discuss how data transfer charges are often overlooked while architecting solutions in AWS. This post will help you identify potential data transfer charges you may encounter while operating your workload on AWS.

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Top 5 Architecture Blog Posts for Q2 2021

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A big thank you to you, our readers, for spending time on our blog this past quarter. Of course, we wouldn’t have content for you to read without our hard-working AWS Solutions Architects and other blog post writers, so thank you to them as well! Without further ado, the following five posts were the top Architecture Blog and Field Notes blog posts published in Q2 (April through June 2021).

Honorable Mention: Managing Asynchronous Workflows with a REST API

by Scott Gerring

With 3,400 views since mid-May, Scott’s post is worth mentioning in our leaderboard. In this post, Scott shows you common patterns for handling REST API operations, their advantages/disadvantages, and their typical AWS serverless implementations. Understanding the options you have to build such a system with AWS serverless solutions is important to choosing the right tool for your problem.

 Serverless polling architecture

#5: Scaling RStudio/Shiny using Serverless Architecture and AWS Fargate

by Chayan Panda, Michael Hsieh, and Mukosi Mukwevho

In this post, Chayan, Michael, and Mukosi discuss serverless architecture that addresses common challenges of hosting RStudio/Shiny servers. They show you best practices adapted from AWS Well-Architected. This architecture provides data science teams a secure, scalable, and highly available environment while reducing infrastructure management overhead.

RStudio-Shiny Open Source Deployment on AWS Serverless Infrastructure

#4: Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part III: Pilot Light and Warm Standby

by Seth Eliot

You’ll notice a recurring theme in this Top 5 post—Seth’s four-part DR series is really popular! Throughout the series, Seth shows you different strategies to prepare your workload for disaster events like natural disasters like earthquakes or floods, technical failures such as power or network loss, and human actions such as inadvertent or unauthorized modifications. Part III discusses two strategies to prepare your workload for a disaster event: pilot light and warm standby. The post shows you how to implement these strategies that help you limit data loss and downtime and how to get the most out of your set up.

Pilot light DR strategy

#3: Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part II: Backup and Restore with Rapid Recovery

by Seth Eliot

Part II covers the backup and restore strategy, the easiest and least expensive strategy to implement in the series. It shows you how, by using automation, you can minimize recovery time objectives and therefore lessen the impacts of downtime in the event of a disaster.

Backup and restore DR strategy

#2: Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part I: Strategies for Recovery in the Cloud | AWS Architecture Blog

by Seth Eliot

Part I gives you an overview of each strategy in the series (backup and restore, pilot light, standby, multi-site active/active) and how to select the best strategy for your business needs. Disaster events pose a threat to your workload availability, but by using AWS Cloud services you can mitigate or remove these threats.

DR strategies – trade-offs between RTO/RPO and costs

#1: Issues to Avoid When Implementing Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda

by Andrei Maksimov

With almost 8,000 views as of this Top 5 post’s publication date, Andrei’s post has been a hit this quarter! In the post, he highlights eight common anti-patterns (solutions that may look like the right solution but end up being less effective than intended). He provides recommendations to avoid these patterns to ensure that your system is performing at its best.

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