A practical guide to designing your AWS Architecture
summary
Presents a 12-step checklist for building AWS systems end-to-end and shows it actually deployed as seven CDK stacks using AWS CDK in Java (Corretto): VPC, ECR, ECS cluster, DynamoDB (40s deploy), ALB, certificate, Route53 (VPC synth/deploy ~4 min). Recommends account-per-environment after a 10,000€ hack/bill, prescribes IAM roles and event bridges, and reports a cost optimization case that saved €20,000/year in two days.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Start
- 0:32MY FIRST STEPS
- 3:26DESIGN PRINCIPLES
- 3:48CLOUD STRATEGY
- 4:26MAGIC BULLET
- 12:20SKILL SET
- 13:54ACCOUNTS
- 14:38DECOMPOSITION
- 14:52BULKHEAD
- 16:15MACHINE IDENTITY ACCESS
- 17:31FILTER
- 17:46DATA RESIDENCY
- 18:05LATENCY
- 19:00FAILURE
- 19:48AWS ARCHITECTURE VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD
- 22:31LOAD BALANCER
- 23:50OLAP
- 25:15COMPUTE
- 26:20PICK THE RIGHT TOOL
- 26:35BUSINESS SYNERGY
- 27:31WILD GROWTH
- 28:00DATA FORMATS
- 28:45MANUAL
- 30:26ALARMS TICKETS
- 30:50STRUCTURED LOGS
- 31:54SECURITY SPECIFIC
- 32:14ENDPOINT SECURITY
- 32:34DETECTION
- 33:33COST OPTIMISATION
- 34:05UNDERSTAND BILLING
- 34:33COST VISIBILITY
- 43:45CONCLUSION
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