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Architecture Services Provided
Requirements
- Gathering Requirements: Meet with stakeholders to understand business needs, technical requirements, and constraints.
- Analyzing Requirements: Translate business needs into technical specifications.
Designing Architecture
- Architectural Design: Developing a high-level design of the application, including major components and their interactions.
- Service Selection: Choosing appropriate AWS services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3) based on requirements.
- Scalability and Performance: Ensuring the design can handle expected load and performance requirements, including autoscaling and load balancing.
- Security: Design security measures, including IAM policies, encryption, and network security (e.g., VPCs, subnets).
Implementation Planning
- Implementation Roadmap: Creating step-by-step plan for implementing the architecture.
- Cost Estimation: Estimating costs for the proposed architecture and suggest cost-optimization strategies.
Prototyping and Proof of Concept
- Prototyping: Building prototypes to validate design assumptions and demonstrate feasibility.
- Proof of Concept: Developing a PoC for critical components to test functionality and performance.
Collaboration and Coordination
- Working with your Teams: Collaborating with your development, operations, and security teams to ensure the architecture aligns with their needs and capabilities.
- Vendor and Third-party Coordination: Coordinating with third-party vendors if external services or products are involved.
Documentation
- Architectural Documentation: Creating detailed documentation of the architecture, including diagrams and descriptions of all components.
- Operational Documentation: Document operational procedures, including deployment, monitoring, and maintenance plans.
Monitoring and Optimisation
- Monitoring Setup: Setting up monitoring and logging using AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, or other relevant tools.
- Performance Tuning: Continuously monitor and optimize the application for performance, cost, and reliability.
Security and Compliance
- Security Best Practices: Implementing AWS security best practices, such as least privilege access, regular security audits, and compliance with regulations (e.g., WAF, GDPR, HIPAA).
- Disaster Recovery Planning: Designing and implementing disaster recovery and backup strategies.
Testing and Validation
- Testing: Working with testing and QA teams to ensure thorough testing of the architecture, including performance, security, and functionality tests.
- Validation: Validating that the deployed architecture meets all business and technical requirements.
Training and Support
- Training: Providing training and support to development and operations teams on using and managing the AWS infrastructure.
- Documentation: Ensuring all relevant documentation is accessible and up-to-date for future reference and support.
Continuous Improvement
- Feedback Loop: Establishing a feedback loop to gather insights from the deployment and operational phases to continuously improve the architecture.
- Staying Updated: Keeping you up-to-date with AWS service updates, best practices, and emerging technologies to recommend improvements
