# Foundational Solutions Architect Use Cases ## **Web & API Solutions** ### Static Website Hosting with HTTPS * **Services**: S3, CloudFront, ACM, Route 53 * **Objective**: Host a static website with a custom domain and SSL certificate. * **Learning**: Understand global content delivery, DNS setup, and how to secure static content delivery at scale. ### Basic REST API with Authentication * **Services**: API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito * **Objective**: Build a simple serverless API protected by user authentication. * **Learning**: Learn API management, integrating authentication, and managing serverless compute for APIs. ### HTTP Redirects via Lambda\@Edge * **Services**: CloudFront, Lambda\@Edge * **Objective**: Create URL redirection rules at the edge for legacy paths. * **Learning**: Explore edge compute, latency reduction, and custom logic deployment close to users. *** ### Global Multi-Region Web App Deployment * **Services**: CloudFront, Route 53, Global Accelerator, Lambda * **Objective**: Deliver a high-availability web app with global failover. * **Learning**: Design for global availability, failover, and performance optimization. ### GraphQL API with Real-Time Subscriptions * **Services**: AppSync, DynamoDB Streams, Lambda * **Objective**: Serve real-time data updates via GraphQL subscriptions. * **Learning**: Architect real-time APIs and understand event-driven integration. ### Multi-Tenant SaaS API with Rate Limiting * **Services**: API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, Usage Plans * **Objective**: Provide controlled API access for multiple tenants. * **Learning**: Design for multi-tenancy, usage throttling, and security boundaries. *** ## **Automation & Event Workflows** ### Scheduled File Cleanup in S3 * **Services**: EventBridge, Lambda * **Objective**: Automate file deletion from S3 on a schedule. * **Learning**: Understand serverless automation and event-driven scheduling. ### Image Upload Trigger for Thumbnail Creation * **Services**: S3, Lambda * **Objective**: Automatically create image thumbnails upon upload. * **Learning**: Implement reactive workflows using S3 event triggers. ### Send Notification on EC2 Start * **Services**: CloudTrail, EventBridge, SNS * **Objective**: Notify admins when EC2 instances start. * **Learning**: Build event-driven monitoring with proactive alerting. *** ### Order Processing with Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) * **Services**: SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB * **Objective**: Process customer orders asynchronously with failure handling. * **Learning**: Architect for resilience, decoupling, and error recovery. ### CI/CD Event Triggers Across Accounts * **Services**: EventBridge (Cross-account), Lambda * **Objective**: Trigger actions in one AWS account based on events in another. * **Learning**: Cross-account event orchestration and governance. ### Automated Compliance Remediation * **Services**: Config Rules, Lambda, SNS * **Objective**: Detect and fix non-compliant resources automatically. * **Learning**: Implement self-healing infrastructure and governance automation. *** ## **Data & Storage Use Cases** ### S3 Lifecycle Management for Archiving * **Services**: S3, Glacier * **Objective**: Automatically archive old files to Glacier. * **Learning**: Optimize storage cost and design data lifecycle strategies. ### Pre-Signed URL Generation for File Access * **Services**: S3, Lambda, API Gateway * **Objective**: Secure temporary access to private files. * **Learning**: Implement secure, scalable file access control. ### Basic CRUD with DynamoDB * **Services**: API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB * **Objective**: Store and manage items using serverless architecture. * **Learning**: Model NoSQL data and understand API integration. *** ### Serverless Data Lake with Querying * **Services**: S3, Glue, Athena, QuickSight * **Objective**: Store and analyze large datasets without servers. * **Learning**: Design data lakes and implement serverless analytics. ### Data Replication and Backup Across Regions * **Services**: S3 Replication, DynamoDB Global Tables * **Objective**: Ensure data availability across multiple AWS regions. * **Learning**: Build for disaster recovery and high availability. ### Data Ingestion Pipeline with ETL * **Services**: Kinesis, Lambda, Glue, Redshift * **Objective**: Stream and transform data into a warehouse. * **Learning**: Design scalable, real-time ETL pipelines. *** ## **Security & Identity Management** ### IAM Role with Least Privilege * **Services**: IAM * **Objective**: Create a secure, minimal access policy. * **Learning**: Apply principle of least privilege and access control. *** ### Centralized Security Monitoring Hub * **Services**: Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config * **Objective**: Aggregate security alerts across accounts. * **Learning**: Centralize governance and threat detection. ### Federated Access with SAML and SSO * **Services**: IAM Identity Center, SAML Provider * **Objective**: Enable external identity federation. * **Learning**: Architect for cross-organization identity management. ### Multi-Tenant Identity Isolation with Cognito * **Services**: Cognito, KMS, IAM * **Objective**: Secure user data in a multi-tenant app. * **Learning**: Design identity isolation and tenant-level security. *** ## **Monitoring & Operational Insights** ### CloudWatch Alarm on EC2 Metrics * **Services**: CloudWatch, EC2 * **Objective**: Alert on high CPU usage. * **Learning**: Implement monitoring and proactive alerting. ### Log Processing and Alerting * **Services**: CloudWatch Logs, Lambda * **Objective**: Analyze logs and trigger actions. * **Learning**: Design reactive log-based workflows. ### Resource Monitoring Dashboard * **Services**: CloudWatch Dashboards * **Objective**: Visualize system health in one view. * **Learning**: Aggregate metrics for operational awareness. *** ### Distributed Tracing Across Microservices * **Services**: X-Ray, API Gateway, Lambda, ECS * **Objective**: Trace user requests across services. * **Learning**: Identify performance bottlenecks and trace flow. ### Real-Time Alerting and Auto-Remediation * **Services**: CloudWatch, EventBridge, Lambda * **Objective**: Auto-heal resources based on alerts. * **Learning**: Build self-healing architectures. ### Log Aggregation and Analysis with OpenSearch * **Services**: CloudWatch Logs, Firehose, OpenSearch * **Objective**: Search and analyze large-scale logs. * **Learning**: Design centralized log analytics. *** ## **Deployment & Infrastructure Automation** ### Deploy Lambda with CloudFormation * **Services**: CloudFormation, Lambda * **Objective**: Automate serverless deployments. * **Learning**: Apply infrastructure-as-code (IaC). ### CI/CD Pipeline for Web App * **Services**: CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline * **Objective**: Automate app build and deployment. * **Learning**: Design pipelines for repeatable deployments. ### Infrastructure Provisioning with CDK * **Services**: AWS CDK * **Objective**: Provision infra using TypeScript/Python. * **Learning**: Use code for scalable infra management. *** ### Multi-Account CI/CD Pipeline * **Services**: CodePipeline, StackSets * **Objective**: Deploy apps across multiple AWS accounts. * **Learning**: Manage complex environments and governance. ### Blue/Green Deployment for ECS * **Services**: ECS, ALB, CodeDeploy * **Objective**: Deploy updates with zero downtime. * **Learning**: Implement safe deployment strategies. ### Parameterized CloudFormation Stacks * **Services**: CloudFormation, SSM * **Objective**: Deploy reusable templates across environments. * **Learning**: Build modular and flexible IaC. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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