All posts by Elyse Lopez

Top 5: Featured Architecture Content for October

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The AWS Architecture Center provides new and notable reference architecture diagrams, vetted architecture solutions, AWS Well-Architected best practices, whitepapers, and more. This blog post features some of our best picks from the new and newly updated content we released in the past month.

 1. AWS Security at the Edge

This new whitepaper provides the foundations for implementing a defense-in-depth security strategy at the edge. It addresses three areas:

  1. AWS services at AWS edge locations
  2. How those services can be used to implement the best practices outlined in the design principles of the Security Pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
  3. The security aspects of additional AWS edge services that you can use to secure your edge environments or expand operations into new, previously unsupported environments

2. Machine Learning Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework 

Machine learning (ML) algorithms discover and learn patterns in data and construct mathematical models to enable predictions on future data. ML solutions can revolutionize lives through better diagnosis of diseases, environment protection, products and services transformation, and more.

This newly updated whitepaper provides you with established cloud- and technology-agnostic best practices. Apply these architectural principles when designing your ML workloads or after workloads have entered production as part of continuous improvement.

3. Streaming Media Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework 

In this newly published Lens, learn how Well-Architected best practices can help you design, deliver, and maintain streaming media workloads. The Lens defines components, explores common workload scenarios, and outlines design principles that help you apply the Well-Architected Framework. Dive deeper into how each scenario affects the architecture of your workload and evaluate the technology architecture that best meets your needs.

4. Maintaining Personalized Experiences with Machine Learning

Boost your customer engagement by providing up-to-date product recommendations, personalized product re-rankings, and customized direct marketing. This new Solutions Implementation helps you provide real-time, curated experiences across multiple channels using Amazon Personalize. The implementation automates the entire lifecycle of a personalization workload, presenting the results in an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard.

5. AWS QnABot

Alexa, what does a QnABot do? This new Solutions Implementation dives deep on AWS QnABot, a multi-channel, multi-language conversational interface (chatbot) that responds to customer’s questions, answers, and feedback. Learn how to deploy QnABot across channels such as chat, voice, SMS, and Amazon Alexa, implementing the newest ML technologies to enhance the customer experience and build more efficient communications.

Use the web user interface to ask: “What is Q and A bot?”. The answer now displays the heading, links, and emphasis specified in your markdown text.

Top 5: Featured Architecture Content for September

Post Syndicated from Elyse Lopez original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/top-5-featured-architecture-content-for-september/

The AWS Architecture Center provides new and notable reference architecture diagrams, vetted architecture solutions, AWS Well-Architected best practices, whitepapers, and more. This blog post features some of our best picks from the new and newly updated content we released in the past month.

1. AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency

Prioritizing the availability and responsiveness of your application helps you maintain customer trust. That’s why it’s crucial to protect your business from the impact of distributed denial of service (DDoS) and other cyberattacks. This whitepaper provides you prescriptive guidance to improve the resiliency of your applications and best practices for how to manage different attack types.

2. Predictive Modeling for Automotive Retail

Automotive retailers use data to better understand how their incentives are helping to sell cars. This new reference architecture diagram shows you how to design a modeling system that provides granular return on investment (ROI) predictions for automotive sales incentives.

3. AWS Graviton Performance Testing – Tips for Independent Software Vendors

If you’re deciding whether to phase in AWS Graviton processors for your workload, this whitepaper covers best practices and common pitfalls for defining test approaches to evaluate Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance performance and how to set success factors and compare different test methods and their implementation.

4. Text Analysis with Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Comprehend

This AWS Solutions Implementation was recently updated with new guidance related to Amazon OpenSearch Service, the successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Learn how Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Comprehend work together to deploy a cost-effective, end-to-end solution to extract meaningful insights from unstructured text-based data such as customer calls, support tickets, and online customer feedback.

5. Back to Basics: Hosting a Static Website on AWS

In this episode of Back to Basics, join SA Readiness Specialist Even Zhang as he breaks down the AWS services you can use to host and scale your static website without a single server. You’ll also learn how to use additional functionalities to enhance your observability and security posture or run A/B tests.

CloudFront Edge Locations and Caches from Back to Basics video

Figure 1. CloudFront Edge Locations and Caches from Back to Basics video

 

Top 5: Featured Architecture Content for August

Post Syndicated from Elyse Lopez original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/top-5-featured-architecture-content-for-august/

The AWS Architecture Center provides new and notable reference architecture diagrams, vetted architecture solutions, AWS Well-Architected best practices, whitepapers, and more. This blog post features some of our best picks from the new and newly updated content we released in the past month.

1. Implementing Travel & Hospitality Data Mesh

The travel and hospitality industries are facing new challenges when generating, accessing, and analyzing data at scale. This new reference architecture diagram shows how to implement a travel and hospitality-related data mesh that you can use to work with data such as travel reservations, loyalty programs, and digital revenue.

2. AWS Outposts High Availability Design and Architecture Considerations

This new whitepaper discusses architecture considerations and recommended practices that systems architects and IT managers can apply to build highly available on-premises application environments with AWS Outposts.

3. Using Computer Vision for Product Quality Analysis in Plants

This reference architecture is designed for manufacturers that want to enhance their Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure by using computer vision for product quality analysis. It shows how to detect and act on product defect classification using AWS IoT and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) services.

4. Tamper Proof Quality Data Using Amazon QLDB

Data tampering is costly for manufacturing companies, and quality data can be particularly vulnerable. This new AWS Solutions Implementation protects quality data by using cryptographic hashing in Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) to maintain an accurate history of data changes.

5. Back to Basics: Handling Communications Between Applications

Many developers are realizing the benefits of moving from centralized to distributed architectures. Because of this, information on how to establish communication between the application services in those environments is very popular. This episode of Back to Basics covers best practices to establish communication, including trade-offs, common anti-patterns, and how to handle errors in less than 5 minutes!

This episode of Back to Basics covers best practices to establish communication

Figure 1. A diagram from Back to Basics video

Top 5: Featured Architecture Content for July

Post Syndicated from Elyse Lopez original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/best-top-5-featured-architecture-content-for-july/

The AWS Architecture Center provides new and notable reference architecture diagrams, vetted architecture solutions, AWS Well-Architected best practices, whitepapers, and more. This blog post features some of our best picks from the new and newly updated content we released this month.

1. Tag Tamer Solution

Consistency is key when you’re using tags to keep your AWS resources organized. This brand-new AWS Solutions Implementation helps you apply and manage tags for new and existing AWS resources via a pre-built web user interface that enforces tagging rules and helps you spot inconsistencies.

Tag Tamer solution

2. AWS DevOps Monitoring Dashboard

Do you need better insight into how your DevOps initiatives are performing? This new AWS Solutions Implementation automates the process of ingesting, analyzing, and visualizing continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) metrics for near-real-time analytics. The solution includes pre-built Amazon QuickSight dashboards, but you can also customize it for use with your existing business intelligence tools.

3. An Overview of AWS Cloud Data Migration Services

Migrating data to the cloud is a well-understood business imperative, but it’s still ongoing work for many, many AWS customers. Effective planning of data migrations—particularly when working with live, mission-critical data—should use best practices built from broad experience. This whitepaper was recently updated with the latest guidance.

4. Building an AWS Perimeter

In traditional on-premises environments, you establish a high-level perimeter to help keep untrusted entities from getting in and your data from getting out. This new whitepaper offers guidance on how to draw the same sort of circle around your AWS resources in the cloud so you can clearly separate “my AWS” from other customers.

5. AWS Well-Architected Tool

This update to the AWS Well-Architected Tool gives you the option to mark certain best practices as “not applicable” when you’re running a workload review, and to record why the best practice doesn’t apply. The new functionality offers better flexibility when certain best practices might not be applicable to your business needs or organizational maturity. You can mark best practices as not applicable using the Well-Architected API, too.

Top 5: Featured Architecture Content for June

Post Syndicated from Elyse Lopez original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/top-5-featured-architecture-content-for-june/

The AWS Architecture Center provides new and notable reference architecture diagrams, vetted architecture solutions, AWS Well-Architected best practices, whitepapers, and more. This blog post features some of our top picks from the new and newly updated content we released this month.

1. Taco Bell: Aurora as The Heart of the Menu Middleware and Data Integration Platform for Taco Bell (YouTube)

This episode of the This is My Architecture video series explores how Taco Bell built a serverless data integration platform to create unique menus for more than 7,000 locations. Find out how this menu middleware uses Amazon Aurora combined with several other services, including AWS Amplify, AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS Step Functions to create a cost-effective, scalable data pipeline.

Image still from This is My Architecture video series

2. Well-Architected IoT Lens Checklist

How do you effectively implement AWS IoT workloads? This IoT Lens Checklist provides insights that we have gathered from real-world case studies. This will help you quickly learn the key design elements of Well-Architected IoT workloads. The checklist also provides recommendations for improvement.

3. Derive Insights from AWS Lake House

This whitepaper provides insights and design patterns for cloud architects, data scientists, and developers. It shows you how a lake house architecture allows you to query data across your data warehouse, data lake, and operational databases. Learn how you can store data in a data lake and use a ring of purpose-built data services to quickly make decisions.

4. AWS Limit Monitor Solution

This AWS Solutions Implementation helps you automatically track resource use and avoid overspending. Managed from a centralized location, this ready-to-deploy solution provides a cost-effective way to stay within service quotas by receiving notifications — even via Slack! — before you reach the limit.

5. Cloud Automation for 5G Networks

Digital services providers (DSPs) around the world are focusing on 5G development as part of upgrading their digital infrastructure. This whitepaper explains how DSPs can use different AWS tools and services to fully automate their 5G network deployment and testing and allow orchestration, closed loop use cases, edge analytics, and more.