AWS Architecture Guide: Production Patterns and Best Practices

Everything I’ve learned building on AWS since 2012, organized by domain. Serverless AWS Lambda Cold Starts: Causes, Measurement, and Mitigation — The definitive cold start guide AWS Step Functions: Orchestrating Complex Workflows — State machine patterns AWS EventBridge: Event-Driven Architectures — Building event-driven systems Containers AWS ECS vs EKS: Choosing Your Container Orchestrator — When to use each Building Production-Ready Docker Images — Multi-stage builds and distroless Data & AI AWS Aurora Serverless v2: Architecture and Performance — Serverless database deep dive AWS Bedrock: Building AI Applications — Foundation models in production Governance & Cost AWS Cost Optimization Techniques That Work — Practical cost reduction AWS Organizations and Control Tower — Multi-account strategy Implementing Zero Trust Networking on AWS — Network security architecture Infrastructure as Code AWS CDK vs Terraform: Practical Comparison — Choosing your IaC tool Terraform State Management…