Bridging Enterprise Architecture and AWS: Harnessing ArchiMate for Well-Architected Cloud Solutions

Bridging Enterprise Architecture and AWS: Harnessing ArchiMate for Well-Architected Cloud Solutions

Enterprise architecture plays a crucial role in aligning IT systems with business goals, enabling organizations to make informed decisions and optimize their cloud infrastructure. By leveraging AWS and ArchiMate, a visual modeling language for enterprise architecture, organizations can effectively model, analyze, and communicate their cloud environments. Leveraging AWS and ArchiMate for Effective Cloud Modeling Modeling cloud architectures is essential for understanding the intricate relationships between various components, identifying potential bottlenecks, and ensuring scalability and efficiency. ArchiMate provides a standardized notation and a comprehensive set of viewpoints, enabling architects to create detailed diagrams that capture the business, application, and technology layers of their AWS environments. ...

March 28, 2025 · 21 min · Vadzim Belski
Building Resilient Systems: Cell-Based Architecture with the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Building Resilient Systems: Cell-Based Architecture with the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Cloud resilient architecture based on cells is an approach to designing and building highly available and fault-tolerant systems on AWS. It involves breaking down a monolithic application into smaller, isolated components called cells. Each cell is responsible for a specific set of functionalities and can be scaled, deployed, and managed independently. Building Resilient Cloud Architectures with Cell-Based Design on AWS The cell-based architecture promotes resilience by isolating failures within individual cells, preventing them from cascading and affecting the entire system. If one cell fails, the others can continue operating, ensuring overall system availability. This design also facilitates easier maintenance, updates, and scaling of individual components without impacting the entire application. ...

December 17, 2024 · 24 min · Vadzim Belski