System Design on AWS: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Scalable, Resilient, and Cost-Optimized Cloud Architectures on AWS

System Design on AWS: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Scalable, Resilient, and Cost-Optimized Cloud Architectures on AWS Designing cloud systems that scale, adapt, and stay cost-efficient under real-world workloads is both an art and a science. System Design on AWS bridges the gap between classical system design principles and the modern cloud-native innovations that power today’s global applications. Whether you’re a developer, DevOps engineer, or cloud architect, this book will guide you through designing production-grade systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with clarity and confidence. This comprehensive guide explores how timeless architectural principles—such as scalability, availability, and fault tolerance—translate into AWS’s elastic and distributed ecosystem. From high-level and low-level design to microservices, event-driven patterns, and cost optimization, every chapter blends theory with hands-on implementation using AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, and CloudFront. What You’ll Learn How classical system design principles evolve in the cloud era AWS-specific patterns for elasticity, automation, and loose coupling Best practices for compute, storage, and database architecture (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB) Techniques for building event-driven, asynchronous, and distributed systems (SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis) Strategies for monitoring, security, and cost optimization across AWS environments Real-world case studies of global systems like e-commerce, media streaming, and SaaS platforms Trade-off and decision frameworks for designing scalable and resilient architectures Who This Book Is For Developers and DevOps engineers seeking to deepen their cloud architecture expertise Solution architects and cloud professionals designing production-ready AWS systems Students and professionals preparing for system design interviews or AWS certifications Technical leaders and founders optimizing performance, reliability, and cost at scale Your Path to Cloud Design Mastery Each chapter follows a structured learning path—from concept to implementation—reinforced by practical design patterns, architecture diagrams, and review questions. By the end of the book, you’ll have both the mindset and the skill set to architect systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, cost-aware, and ready for the future of cloud computing. Design intelligently. Scale globally. Optimize confidently. System Design on AWS is your complete blueprint for mastering modern cloud architecture. View Less