Purpose
Curated source list for AWS architecture, operational best practices, and diagrams.
Core references
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- AWS Prescriptive Guidance — Cloud Design Patterns
- AWS Architecture Icons
- AWS Reference Architecture Diagrams
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