Cloud Architecture
Patterns for building secure, scalable, and cost-effective systems on cloud platforms — from foundational account structure to multi-region active-active designs.
Cloud-Native Design
12-factor apps, container-first thinking, and managed services adoption patterns.
Cloud-Native Principles
The philosophy and practices behind building software for cloud environments.
Landing Zones
Establishing secure, compliant multi-account cloud environments at scale.
Cloud Networking
VPCs, subnets, peering, transit gateways, and private connectivity patterns.
Auto-Scaling Patterns
Horizontal and vertical scaling, predictive scaling, and scale-to-zero patterns.
Auto-Scaling Deep Dive
Configuring policies, cooldowns, and custom metrics for reactive and predictive scaling.
Serverless Architecture
FaaS, BaaS, and the event-driven execution model for variable workloads.
Serverless Platforms
Comparing AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Run, and Knative.
Cloud Cost Optimization
FinOps practices, reserved capacity, rightsizing, and waste elimination.
FinOps
Cloud financial management: tagging, budgets, showback, chargeback, and optimization.
Multi-Cloud Strategy
Workload portability, vendor-neutral abstractions, and managing cloud sprawl.
Multi-Region Architecture
Active-active and active-passive patterns for geographic redundancy and latency.
Active-Active Architecture
Running identical workloads in multiple regions simultaneously for maximum availability.
Active-Passive Architecture
Primary/standby patterns with failover for disaster recovery.
Disaster Recovery
RTO/RPO targets, backup strategies, and runbooks for recovering from disasters.
Cloud Migration Patterns
The 6 Rs: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, and retain.
Cloud Storage Patterns
Object, block, file, and archival storage selection and lifecycle management.
Managed Services Strategy
Build vs buy decisions for databases, queues, caches, and ML platforms.
Shared Responsibility Model
Understanding the security boundary between cloud providers and customers.
Container Orchestration
Kubernetes on cloud providers — EKS, AKS, GKE, and managed cluster patterns.
Kubernetes Architecture
Control plane, worker nodes, pods, services, and networking model explained.
Service Mesh in Cloud
Cloud-native service mesh with Istio, Linkerd, and AWS App Mesh.