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    Top Architecture Blog Posts of 2024

    Well, it’s been another historic year! We’ve watched in awe as the use of real-world generative AI has changed the tech landscape, and while we at the Architecture Blog happily participated, we also made every effort to stay true to our channel’s original scope, and your readership this last year has proven that decision was the right one. Here are our top posts from 2024!

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    Create a serverless custom retry mechanism for stateless queue consumers

    It is often challenging to build scalable, robust serverless applications that might need to talk with external services. In this post, we propose a solution that handles serverless retries when the workflow’s state isn’t managed by an additional service, giving developers fine-grained control over the retry interval, supporting scenarios such as exponential backoff.

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    Use generative AI on AWS for efficient clinical document analysis

    In this blog post, we show how Clario, a leading provider of endpoint data solutions to the clinical trials industry, built a custom generative AI platform on AWS to efficiently process thousands of documents in a matter of seconds.

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    Architectural best practices throughout the lifecycle

    Learn how to integrate architectural best practices at every stage of your workload’s lifecycle using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. (54:42)

    Building core capabilities: The secret to innovation at scale

    Unlock the potential of your business by learning how to build core capabilities. Discover how these platforms can empower your teams to innovate with speed. (43:57)

    How not to sabotage your transformation

    In this session, explore mental models based on real-world experiences designed to help organizations assess their competitiveness. (37:11)

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    Workload Discovery on AWS

    Workload Discovery on AWS is a visualization tool that quickly generates architecture diagrams of AWS Cloud workloads. Formerly called AWS Perspective.
    April 2025
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    Automated Security Response on AWS

    Deploy an add-on solution that works with AWS Security Hub to provide a ready-to-deploy architecture and a library of automated playbooks.
    April 2025
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    Enhanced Document Understanding on AWS

    Deploy an event-driven AWS Solution that automates document ingestion, analysis, detection, and redaction.
    April 2025
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    QnABot on AWS

    Deploy a multi-channel, multi-language conversational interface (chatbot) that responds to your customer's questions, answers, and feedback, powered by large language models (LLMs).
    April 2025
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    Connected Mobility Solution on AWS

    Deploy an architecture that allows you to configure and develop modular services for a connected mobility solution.
    April 2025
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    Integrating Industrial Data Fabric with Tulip on AWS

    This Guidance demonstrates how to implement an Industrial Data Fabric (IDF) solution that integrates Tulip digital manufacturing capabilities with AWS services to streamline operational workflows.
    April 2025
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    Migration Assistant for Amazon OpenSearch Service

    This AWS Solution facilitates automated data transfer, streamlines version upgrades, and optimizes the performance of workloads during migration to Amazon OpenSearch Service.

    March 2025
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    Modular Cloud Studio on AWS

    Modular Cloud Studio on AWS helps organizations to rapidly build secure, scalable, and highly customizable content production studios in the cloud. This is achieved by automating AWS services, deploying cloud infrastructure, and using AWS partner and third-party components.

    March 2025
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    Set up auto scaling using Amazon EKS Pod Identity and KEDA

    Use Amazon EKS Pod Identity and KEDA ScaledObject and TriggerAuthentication features to auto scale applications based on unread messages in an Amazon SQS queue.

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    Tags: Cloud Financial Management | Containers | DevOps

    March 31, 2025
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    Migrating legacy ASP.NET Web Forms applications to AWS

    Options for hosting, deploying, and scaling ASP.NET Web Forms applications, which can be large monoliths that contain legacy code, on AWS.

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    Tags: Migration | Modernization | Websites & Web Apps

    March 31, 2025
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    Building a Sustainability Data Fabric with Snowflake on AWS

    This Guidance shows you how to build a sustainability data fabric on AWS using the best of Snowflake and AWS offerings.
    March 2025
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    Cloud-Native Fast-Turnaround Media Workflows on AWS

    This Guidance demonstrates new tools for media workflows in cloud environments as part of the Cloud-Native Agile Production (CNAP) program.
    March 2025
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    Multi-Region Resilient Microservice on AWS

    This Guidance demonstrates how to build highly resilient web applications that can withstand disruptions, minimizing impact on revenue and application downtime.
    March 2025
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    Homogeneous migration of Oracle databases to AWS

    Strategies and best practices for analyzing your on-premises Oracle databases, planning a homogeneous migration to AWS, and choosing the right migration tools and services.

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    Tags: Databases | Migration

    March 28, 2025
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    Harmonix with Backstage.io on AWS

    This Guidance illustrates how to implement Harmonix on AWS, an enterprise-grade developer portal that bridges AWS services with your development teams.
    March 2025
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    Learn how to move existing applications to AWS.
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    Learn to connect devices and collect, store, and analyze device data.
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    Learn how to meet your security and compliance goals using AWS infrastructure and services.
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    Learn to build and run applications and backend services without servers.
  • Storage
    Design reliable, scalable, and secure data storage architectures.

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