AWS Architecture Blog
Category: Customer Solutions
How Launchpad from Pega enables secure SaaS extensibility with AWS Lambda
In this post, we share how Pegasystems (Pega) built Launchpad, its new SaaS development platform, to solve a core challenge in multi-tenant environments: enabling secure customer customization. By running tenant code in isolated environments with AWS Lambda, Launchpad offers its customers a secure, scalable foundation, eliminating the need for bespoke code customizations.
Improving platform resilience at Cash App
Cash App, a leading peer-to-peer payments and digital wallet service from Block, Inc., has implemented resilience improvements across the entire technology stack. In this post, we discuss how Cash App improved the resilience of its compute platform built on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) by implementing a dual-cluster topology to reduce single points of failure. We also discuss how Cash App used AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to conduct an Availability Zone power interruption scenario in non-production environments, preparing the platform team for real-world failures and ongoing
Transforming Maya’s API management with Amazon API Gateway
In this post, you will learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer, Maya, the Philippines’ leading fintech company and digital bank, built an API management platform to address the growing complexities of managing multiple APIs hosted on Amazon API Gateway.
How Smartsheet boosts developer productivity with Amazon Bedrock and Roo Code
This post explores how Smartsheet successfully deployed Roo Code with Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic’s Claude, achieving significant improvements in developer efficiency while optimizing costs through innovative caching strategies.
How Smartsheet reduced latency and optimized costs in their serverless architecture
In this post, we discuss Smartsheet’s journey optimizing its serverless architecture. We explore the solution, the stringent requirements Smartsheet faced, and how they’ve achieved an over 80% latency reduction. This technical journey offers valuable insights for organizations looking to enhance their serverless architectures with proven enterprise-grade optimization techniques.
How UNiDAYS achieved AWS Region expansion in 3 weeks
In this post, we share how UNiDAYS achieved AWS Region expansion in just 3 weeks using AWS services.
WellRight modernizes to an event-driven architecture to manage bursty and unpredictable traffic
In this post, we share how WellRight optimized the cost and performance of their application through a ground-up modernization to an event-driven architecture.
Use generative AI on AWS for efficient clinical document analysis
In this post, we show how Clario uses the AWS platform to accelerate clinical document analysis.
How Nielsen uses serverless concepts on Amazon EKS for big data processing with Spark workloads
In this post, we follow Nielsen’s journey to build a robust and scalable architecture while enjoying linear scaling. We start by examining the initial challenges Nielsen faced and the root causes behind these issues. Then, we explore Nielsen’s solution: running Spark on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) while adopting serverless concepts.
Top Architecture Blog Posts of 2024
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