AWS Architecture Guide: Production Patterns and Best Practices

Everything I’ve learned building on AWS since 2012, organized by domain.

Serverless

• AWS Lambda Cold Starts: Causes, Measurement, and Mitigation — The definitive cold start guide
• AWS Step Functions: Orchestrating Complex Workflows — State machine patterns
• AWS EventBridge: Event-Driven Architectures — Building event-driven systems

Containers

• AWS ECS vs EKS: Choosing Your Container Orchestrator — When to use each
• Building Production-Ready Docker Images — Multi-stage builds and distroless

Data & AI

• AWS Aurora Serverless v2: Architecture and Performance — Serverless database deep dive
• AWS Bedrock: Building AI Applications — Foundation models in production

Governance & Cost

• AWS Cost Optimization Techniques That Work — Practical cost reduction
• AWS Organizations and Control Tower — Multi-account strategy
• Implementing Zero Trust Networking on AWS — Network security architecture

Infrastructure as Code

• AWS CDK vs Terraform: Practical Comparison — Choosing your IaC tool
• Terraform State Management Best Practices — Remote state and locking
• Terraform Modules: Design Patterns — Reusable infrastructure