From Requirements to Reality: How Solutions Architects Think, Build & Decide
summary
Explains concrete architect moves: uses Deploy on AWS plugin to generate IaC and an AI-driven diagrammer, compares Lambda vs EC2 with cold-start, concurrency and cost-per-invocation tradeoffs, and applies AWS Well‑Architected pillars (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, cost, sustainability). Shows a working side project “sunset” that calls AWS Bedrock to produce newsletters, demonstrates AI finding failure modes, and urges keeping an architecture decision record and running design reviews.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Thinking like a solutions architect
- 1:53Engineering vs architecting
- 4:18Cloud compute and storage
- 5:47AWS Well-Architected Framework
- 10:40EC2 vs Lambda for scalability
- 14:15AI tools for diagrams
- 17:47Five habits for architects
- 19:36Demo using AWS tools
- 22:55Q&A on AI and scope
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