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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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    Migrating SQL Server databases to AWS

    Options, tools, and best practices for migrating your Microsoft SQL Server on-premises databases to the AWS Cloud.

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    Tags: Databases | Migration

    April 25, 2025
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    Automations for AWS Firewall Manager

    Deploy a solution that centrally configures, manages, and audits firewall rules across all your accounts and resources in AWS Organizations.
    April 2025
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    Modern Data Architecture Accelerator

    The Modern Data Architecture Accelerator (MDAA) is designed to accelerate the implementation of a secure, compliant and fully capable Modern Data Architecture on AWS, allowing organizations of all sizes and sophsitication to quickly focus on driving business outcomes from their data while maintaining high assurance of security compliance. Specifically, organizations are enabled to rapidly solve data-driven problems using both traditional analytics, as well as using contemporary capabilities such as generative AI.

    April 2025
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    Migrate NGINX Ingress Controllers for EKS Auto Mode

    Use a blue/green deployment strategy to migrate NGINX Ingress Controller instances and enable Amazon EKS Auto Mode.

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    Tags: Containers | Networking & Remote Access

    April 23, 2025
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    Advanced Cloud Observability with Cloud Intelligence Dashboards on AWS

    This Guidance demonstrates how to deploy Cloud Intelligence Dashboards in your AWS environment using AWS CloudFormation templates or command line tools.
    April 2025
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    Defining Amazon S3 bucket and path names for data lake layers

    Create a consistent naming standard for Amazon S3 buckets and paths in data lakes hosted on the AWS Cloud.

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    Tags: Analytics | Storage & Backup

    April 22, 2025
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    Working around Terraform data source limitations

    Solutions and workarounds for using Terraform on AWS as an IaC tool to automate one-time DevOps tasks.

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    Tags: Business Productivity | DevOps | Infrastructure

    April 21, 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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    Accelerate development lifecycles with generative AI

    Review a framework, foundational capabilities, use cases, best practices, and success metrics for accelerating software development lifecycles with generative AI.

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    Tags: Business Productivity | DevOps | Machine Learning

    April 18, 2025
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    Transform ADM operating models with generative AI

    Review strategic guidance to transform your organization's application development and maintenance practices through generative AI integration.

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    Tags: Business Productivity | DevOps | Machine Learning

    April 18, 2025
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    Use mutual TLS in Amazon ECS with ALB

    Simplify your application authentication and offload security burdens with mutual TLS on Amazon ECS using Application Load Balancer.

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    Tags: Containers | DevOps | Infrastructure

    April 16, 2025
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    Automate database tasks with AWS Lambda and Task Scheduler

    Schedule and manage database tasks in SQL Server Express edition on Amazon EC2 by using Task Scheduler and AWS Lambda.

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    Tags: Databases | Migration

    April 16, 2025
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    Choosing an AWS application integration service

    Help determine which AWS application integration services are the best fit for your workloads.

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    April 2025
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    Distributed Load Testing on AWS

    Deploy a solution that provisions the products and services necessary to automate application load testing.
    April 2025
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    Multi-Provider Generative AI Gateway on AWS

    This Guidance demonstrates how to streamline access to numerous large language models (LLMs) through a unified, industry-standard API gateway based on OpenAI API standards.
    April 2025
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    Build secure, reliable, cost-effective data-processing architectures.
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    Learn the most secure, reliable, and scalable way to run containers.
  • Cost optimization
    Learn how to continuously optimize your costs.
  • Databases
    Choose the right database for your use case and access patterns.
  • End-user computing
    Build architectures that help you respond to the changing needs of your workforce.
  • IoT
    Learn to connect devices and collect, store, and analyze device data.
  • Machine learning
    Build effective and efficient machine learning (ML) architectures.
  • Management and governance
    Learn to more rapidly and reliably build and deliver products using AWS.
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    Learn best practices for building and running Microsoft applications.
  • Migration
    Learn how to move existing applications to AWS.
  • Networking and content delivery
    Learn to connect devices and collect, store, and analyze device data.
  • Security, identity, & compliance
    Learn how to meet your security and compliance goals using AWS infrastructure and services.
  • Serverless
    Learn to build and run applications and backend services without servers.
  • Storage
    Design reliable, scalable, and secure data storage architectures.

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