Let’s Architect! Tools for Cloud Architects
AWS Architecture BlogLet’s Architect! Tools for Cloud Architectsby Luca Mezzalira, Laura Hyatt, Vittorio Denti, and Zamira Jaupaj | on09 MAR 2022| inArchitecture|Permalink|ShareForInternational Women’s Dayand Women’s History Month, we’re featuring more than a week’s worth of posts that highlight female builders and leaders. We’re showcasing women in the industry who are building, creating, and, above all, inspiring, empowering, and encouraging everyone—especially women and girls—in tech.A great way for cloud architects to learn is to experiment with the tools that our teams are using or could consider for the future. This allows us to learn new technologies, become familiar with the latest trends, and understand the entire cycle of our solutions.Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides several tools for architects, including resources that can analyze your environment for creating a visual diagram and a community of builders who can answer your technical questions.Today we’re excited to share  tools and methodologies that you should be aware of. In honor of the Architecture Blog’s International Women’s Day, half of these tools have been developed with and by women.AWS PerspectiveOne of the main challenges for every architect is making sure their documentation is up to date. Recently, we’ve seen the rise of “architecture as code” tools for deriving architecture diagrams directly from the code in production.In that vein, AWS developedAWS Perspective, a diagramming tool solution that helps you represent your live workload.AWS Perspective analyzes your environment and creates a diagram with all your cloud componentsChaos Testing with AWS Fault Injection Simulator and AWS CodePipelineChaos engineering is the process of testing a distributed computing system to ensure that it can withstand unexpected disruptions.This blog post shows an architecture pattern for automating chaos testing as part of your continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) process. By automating the implementation of chaos experiments inside CI/CD pipelines, complex risks and modeled failure scenarios can be tested against application environments with every deploymentThis high-level architecture shows how to automate chaos engineering in your environmentAWS re:Post – A Reimagined Q&A Experience for the AWS CommunityOften when architecting we run into different design choices, issues, and roadblocks. What service should you use? What is the best way to implement this? Who do you ask?AWS re:Postis a new question-and-answer service (thinkStack Overflowspecifically for AWS). It is monitored by the community who answers your questions, and then employees and official partners review these answers to ensure accuracy.AWS re:Post is public. There is a wide community of AWS experts ready to answer your questionsEstablishing Feedback Loops Based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework ReviewIn 2018, AWS released theWell-Architected Framework, a mechanism for reviewing and/or improving your workloads that provides recommendations based on best practices in different areas such as security, costs optimization, or reliability. This article shows you how to improve iteratively your systems in the cloud using the Well-Architected Framework.Creating a healthy feedback loop will enhance your architecture over timeSee you next time!Thanks for reading! If you’re looking for more ways tools to architect your workload, check out theAWS Architecture Center.See you in a couple of weeks when we discuss blockchain!Other posts in this seriesLet’s Architect! Architecting for SustainabilityLet’s Architect! Architecting for Machine LearningLet’s Architect! Architecting for SecurityLet’s Architect! Architecting for BlockchainWe’ve got more content for International Women’s Day!Celebrate International Women’s Day all week with the Architecture BlogDeploying service-mesh-based architectures using AWS App Mesh and Amazon ECSfromKesha Williams, anAWS Heroand award-winning software engineer.A collection of several blog posts written and co-authored by womenCurated contentfrom theLet’s Architect!team and alive Twitter chatWomen at AWS – Diverse backgrounds make great solutions architectsExtend SQL Server DR using log shipping for SQL Server FCI with Amazon FSx for Windows configurationBuilding your brand as a Solutions ArchitectMainframe offloading and modernization: Using mainframe data to build cloud native services with AWSMessage to the next generation of women disruptors in technologyMigrating petabytes of data from on-premises file systems to Amazon FSx for LustreOther ways to participateShare Your 2022 #SheCoded StoryInternational Women’s Day: Improve Equality for Women in TechAWS She Builds CloudUp programTAGS:International Women's Day,Let's ArchitectLuca MezzaliraLuca is Principal Solutions Architect based in London. He has authored several books and is an international speaker. He lent his expertise predominantly in the solution architecture field. Luca has gained accolades for revolutionizing the scalability of front-end architectures with micro-frontends, from increasing the efficiency of workflows, to delivering quality in products.Laura HyattLaura Hyatt is a Solutions Architect for AWS Public Sector and helps Education customers in the UK. Laura helps customers not only architect and develop scalable solutions but also think big on innovative solutions facing the education sector at present. Laura's specialty is IoT, and she is also the Alexa SME for Education across EMEA.Vittorio DentiVittorio Denti is a Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon based in London. After completing his M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Milan) and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), he joined AWS. Vittorio has a background in distributed systems and machine learning. He's especially passionate about software engineering and the latest innovations in machine learning science.Zamira JaupajZamira is an Enterprise Solutions Architect based in the Netherlands. She is highly passionate IT professional with over 10 years of multi-national experience in designing and implementing critical and complex solutions with containers, serverless, and data analytics for small and enterprise companies.
For International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we’re featuring more than a week’s worth of posts that highlight female builders and leaders. We’re showcasing women in the industry who are building, creating, and, above all, inspiring, empowering, and encouraging everyone—especially women and girls—in tech. A great way for cloud architects to learn is to […]
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