Cloud Infrastructure Design
Knowing individual AWS services is table stakes — what separates senior engineers is the ability to compose those services into production-grade architectures that are resilient, cost-effective, and operationally sound. This path takes you through five infrastructure design challenges that mirror real-world scenarios: multi-AZ deployments, serverless platforms, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and event-driven order processing. Each challenge forces you to reason about failure modes, blast radius, cost optimization, and operational excellence. You will not just draw diagrams — you will specify exact service configurations, networking layouts, IAM policies, and monitoring strategies. These are the kinds of architecture decisions that get discussed in staff engineer promotion packets and principal engineer design reviews.
AWS Services Across This Path
5 Challenges in This Path
Multi-AZ Web Application
Design a highly available web application that survives an entire Availability Zone failure.
Serverless API Platform
Architect a serverless API platform that handles variable traffic without managing any servers.
CI/CD Pipeline Architecture
Design a CI/CD pipeline that deploys to production with automated testing and rollback capabilities.
Container Orchestration Platform
Design a container platform that runs microservices with service discovery and auto-scaling.
Event-Driven Order Pipeline
Design an event-driven order processing system that handles thousands of orders per minute.
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