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Regional and Global AWS Architecture

  • There are 3 main type of architectures:
    • Small scale architectures: one region/one country
    • Small architecture with DR: one region + backup region for disaster recovery
    • Multiple region based systems
  • Architectural components at global level:
    • Global Service Location and Discovery
    • Content Delivery (CDN) and optimization
    • Global health checks and Failover
  • Regional components:
    • Regional entry point
    • Scaling and resilience
    • Application services and components Regional and Global Architecture

Web Tier : Customer facing layer. There would be regional based services like ALB or API gateway dependig on application architecture. Abstracts customers from underlying architecture. Compute Tier: The infra to web tier is provided by compute tier using EC2, lambda or containers. Storage Services: Service like EBS, EFS or S3. Data Storage: Products like RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and RedShift. Caching: Elastic cache for general caching, DynamoDB acclerator(DAX) App Services: Kinesis, Step Functions, SQS, SNS