AWS Architecture Reference Links

Purpose

Curated source list for AWS architecture, operational best practices, and diagrams.

Core references

Service references

Workshops

Workshop reference for decoupled microservices and catalog service patterns.

Related guides: EKS, VPC Lattice, Application Auto Scaling, and RDS patterns covered in this site.

Lab template

Reusable template for AWS CloudOps practice: build, break, diagnose, document, and tear down.

  • Architecture sketch or AWS icon diagram
  • Provisioning path: Terraform, CloudFormation, SAM, eksctl, or console steps
  • Day-1 setup checklist
  • Day-2 operations checklist
  • Failure drill and expected symptoms
  • Security review: IAM, logging, encryption, network exposure
  • Cost controls and teardown checklist

Suggested labs

  • Private EC2 with SSM endpoints and no inbound SSH/RDP
  • RDS connectivity drill with security-group failure and recovery
  • Redshift COPY from S3 with SSE-KMS permission failure
  • EKS workload using Pod Identity
  • Network Firewall centralized inspection with Transit Gateway

WAF reference