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Real-world system design blueprints evaluated through the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

29 Studies
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Advanced Enterprise Security & Compliance
8 min read

Centralized Enterprise Security Log Lake: CloudTrail & VPC Flow Logs

Aggregating multi-account security telemetry into an immutable S3 lake with AWS Glue crawlers and Athena forensics.

Forensic Query Time: 25s (from 4 hrs)
Log Immutability: 100% WORM
Intermediate FinOps & Cloud Economics
7 min read

Cloud Cost Anomaly Sentinel: Autonomous FinOps Waste Hunting

Automatically identifying and remediating orphan EBS volumes, unattached Elastic IPs, and idle development RDS instances using AWS Config and EventBridge.

Monthly Waste Eliminated: $4,200/mo
Orphaned Disks: 0
Beginner FinOps & Cloud Governance
7 min read

Free-Tier & Budget Trap Guard: Automated Cost Anomaly Defense

Prevent surprise cloud bills with multi-tier AWS Budgets, CloudWatch billing alarms, anomaly detection, and automated circuit breakers.

Billing Surprises: 0
Alert Latency: < 15 mins
Intermediate Enterprise Corporate Systems
7 min read

Internal Analytics Portal: Scheduled Auto-Scaling & Spot Fleets

Saving 70% on compute bills for a corporate analytics tool using scheduled scaling policies, EC2 Spot Instances, and EBS snapshots.

Compute Cost Reduction: 72%
Nighttime Waste: 0%
Expert E-Commerce & Global Retail
10 min read

Polyglot Microservices on Amazon EKS with Karpenter Autoscaling

Running 80+ microservices on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) with Karpenter just-in-time node provisioning and AWS Load Balancer Controller.

Node Scaling Velocity: 42 seconds
Cluster Cost Efficiency: +38%
Intermediate Fintech & Payments
7 min read

Resilient Webhook Ingestion Engine: Buffering 10,000 Webhooks/Sec

Ingest third-party webhooks (Stripe, GitHub, Shopify) directly into Amazon SQS via API Gateway without intermediate compute to prevent traffic dropouts.

Dropped Webhooks: 0
Ingress p99 Latency: 22ms
Intermediate Fintech & Mission-Critical Web
8 min read

Zero-Downtime Blue/Green & Canary Traffic Shifting with CodeDeploy

Shifting live user traffic progressively (10% -> 50% -> 100%) across ALB target groups with automated CloudWatch error-rate rollback alarms.

Production Outage Time: 0.00s
Rollback Detection MTTR: < 30s
Advanced Banking & FinTech
8 min read

Zero-Trust Financial Backend: Eliminating NAT Gateway Data Fees

Securing private banking APIs and saving $3,000/month by replacing NAT Gateway S3/DynamoDB traffic with VPC Interface Endpoints and PrivateLink.

NAT Egress Costs: -94%
Data Path Security: 100% Private
Intermediate Business Intelligence & Retail
8 min read

Executive BI Datamart Pipeline: Redshift Serverless & Glue ETL

Automating dimensional data warehouse transforms from transactional OLTP databases into Redshift Serverless and Amazon QuickSight.

ETL Batch Duration: 14 mins (from 3 hrs)
Dashboard Load Time: 1.2s
Expert Enterprise B2B SaaS
10 min read

Global Multi-Tenant B2B SaaS: Tenant Isolation & Metering Engine

Designing a high-growth B2B SaaS platform balancing Silo vs Pool tenant isolation models, dynamic IAM ABAC policies, and fine-grained billing telemetry.

Tenant Isolation Breaches: 0.00%
Cost per Tenant Tracking: 100% Attribution
Advanced Gaming & Interactive Media
8 min read

Sub-Millisecond Gaming Leaderboard: Redis Sorted Sets & DynamoDB

Handling 100,000 score updates per second with real-time global player ranking using ElastiCache Redis Sorted Sets and persistent DynamoDB archiving.

Write Throughput: 100,000 / sec
Rank Query Latency: < 1ms
Beginner SaaS & Marketing Tech
6 min read

Global Serverless URL Shortener: Sub-15ms Redirection

Architecting a high-throughput, low-latency URL redirection engine with API Gateway HTTP APIs, Lambda, and DynamoDB single-table design.

p99 Redirect Latency: 14ms
Monthly Cost / 10M Clicks: $14.20