Architect

Evaluate architectural tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, cost, and operations. Work through three guided steps — pick a workload, set your priorities, and get an evidence-based recommendation.

12 Workloads
10 Architectures
7 Evaluation Criteria
1 Learn the domain 2 Architect 3 Review
1 Pick a workload
2 Set your priorities
3 Get a recommendation
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Event Streaming

Millions of events, ordering, replay, analytics.

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Payments Platform

Reliability, correctness, low latency.

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AI Platform

Pipelines, async processing, scale.

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Enterprise Data Platform

Cloud analytics, governance, pipelines, and large-scale data processing.

🌎

Global API

Availability, latency, developer velocity.

📶

IoT & Telemetry

Device fleets, per-device ordering, replay.

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Notifications

Multi-channel fan-out, retries, delivery.

🛒

E-Commerce

Orders, inventory, correctness, spikes.

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Logistics

Tracking, carrier events, cost control.

⚙️

Background Jobs

Task queues, retries, worker scaling.

🎮

Realtime

Gaming, presence, live collaboration, sub-second latency.

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Healthcare

Claims, compliance, audit trails, replay.

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Managed Streaming

Fully managed AWS streaming, lower ops.

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Event-Driven Integration

SaaS events, routing, schema governance.

✉️

Reliable Messaging

Sub-millisecond transport, complex routing.

Serverless Functions

Bursty glue code, scale to zero, pay per call.

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Container Platform

Long-running microservices, Fargate.

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Regulated Enterprise

Governance, compliance, hybrid estates.

Step 1 · Choose a workload

Scenario Overview

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Key Challenges

Architecture Q&A

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Architecture Decision Record

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