DVC02 - Cutting-edge architectures based on AWS AppSync, Lambda, and Fargate

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© 2019, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cutting-edge architectures based on AWS AppSync, Lambda, and Fargate Michael Wittig D V C 0 2 Freelancer. Entrepreneur. Author. cloudonaut.io

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Agenda • A brief history of AWS architectures • Why cutting-edge architectures matter • AppSync + Lambda + DynamoDB • ALB + Fargate + Aurora • Summary

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A brief history of AWS architectures ELB + EC2 + RDS 2009 2015 2016 2017 2018

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Goals • Low operational effort • Cost-effective • Highly available • Scalable • Automated deployment • Future proof

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AppSync + Lambda + DynamoDB AWS AppSync Amazon DynamoDB Vue.js Apollo GraphQL AWS Cloud S3 Bucket HTML, JS, CSS Lambda function

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Pitfalls + Limitations • No customizable rate limits • No private endpoints

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ALB + Fargate + Aurora Elastic Load Balancing ALB AWS Fargate Amazon Aurora Serverless AWS Cloud Container Container

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Pitfalls + Limitations • Aurora Serverless needs some time to start when stopped (optional) • No SLA for Aurora Serverless • „single AZ with multi AZ failover“

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• ECS/EKS with EC2 requires a lot of heavy lifting • Fargate is the choice to run existing, dockerized applications on AWS • AppSync is beginner friendly and much easier to use than API Gateway • DynamoDB on-demand offers a maintenance free database • Aurora Serverless solves the scalability challenge for relational databases Summary