System Design on AWS

Preface

System design is a disciplined art, so let’s create some large-scale masterpieces.

System Design on AWS is a comprehensive guide to helping software architects and engineers understand, build, and scale complex systems on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The book provides a structured approach to tackling real-world system design challenges on AWS in a continuously evolving cloud landscape. The material focuses on fundamental principles, architectural trade-offs, and practical use cases, guiding you from Day 0 (minimum viable product) to Day N (most valuable product). Through detailed chapters, this book demystifies AWS’s wide-ranging services and how they can be strategically leveraged to address both technical and business requirements.

How This Book Is Organized

Organized into three core parts, this book begins by establishing a foundation in system design, then dives into the essential AWS services for building resilient architectures, and concludes with practical system design use cases. Foundational system design patterns, scaling mechanisms, caching strategies, network protocols, and deployment strategies are covered. By exploring these elements in a cloud context, the book offers a toolkit for approaching and solving large-scale design problems in any industry. Each part opener breaks down the chapters included in that part, so take a look at those openers for details. This book aims to equip you with:

• A solid understanding of fundamental system design principles ...