AWS Architecture Blog

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 […]

In this post, we share how Pegasystems (Pega) built Launchpad, its new SaaS development platform, to solve a core challenge in multi-tenant environments: enabling secure customer customization. By running tenant code in isolated environments with AWS Lambda, Launchpad offers its customers a secure, scalable foundation, eliminating the need for bespoke code customizations.

Cash App, a leading peer-to-peer payments and digital wallet service from Block, Inc., has implemented resilience improvements across the entire technology stack. In this post, we discuss how Cash App improved the resilience of its compute platform built on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) by implementing a dual-cluster topology to reduce single points of failure. We also discuss how Cash App used AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to conduct an Availability Zone power interruption scenario in non-production environments, preparing the platform team for real-world failures and ongoing

In this post, we’ll explore how to maximize the value of dashcam footage through best practices for implementing and managing Computer Vision systems in commercial fleet operations. We’ll demonstrate how to build and deploy edge-based machine learning models that provide real-time alerts for distracted driving behaviors, while effectively collecting, processing, and analyzing footage to train these AI models.

In this post, you will learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer, Maya, the Philippines’ leading fintech company and digital bank, built an API management platform to address the growing complexities of managing multiple APIs hosted on Amazon API Gateway.

This post explores how Smartsheet successfully deployed Roo Code with Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic’s Claude, achieving significant improvements in developer efficiency while optimizing costs through innovative caching strategies.

In this blog post, we introduce a reference architecture that offers an intelligent document digitization solution that converts handwritten notes, scanned documents, and images into editable, searchable, and accessible formats. Powered by Anthropic’s Claude 3 on Amazon Bedrock, the solution uses the sophisticated vision capabilities of LLMs to process a wide range of visual formats, preserving the original formatting while extracting text, tables, and images.

This post demonstrates how to build a Business Event Monitoring System (BEMS) on AWS that handles over 86 million daily events with near real-time visibility, cross-Region controls, and automated alerts for stuck events. You might deploy this system for business-level insights into how events are flowing through your organization or to visualize the flow of transactions in real time. Downstream services also will have the option to process and respond to events originating within the system or not.

Modern cloud architectures demand a new governance approach. In this post, we show how collaborative architecture oversight can transform team performance through automation, self-service platforms, and distributed decision-making.

In this post, we discuss Smartsheet’s journey optimizing its serverless architecture. We explore the solution, the stringent requirements Smartsheet faced, and how they’ve achieved an over 80% latency reduction. This technical journey offers valuable insights for organizations looking to enhance their serverless architectures with proven enterprise-grade optimization techniques.

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