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.
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