Diagramming and describing an AWS architecture
Objectives
- Draw an architecture diagram on “how to host a website on AWS with Amazon S3, CloudFront and Route 53” using online tool app.diagrams.net
- Describe the above architecture diagram
AWS Well-Architected and the Five Pillars
Pillar, in architecture and building construction represents the stability. Cloud architects follows AWS Well-Architected Framework when building secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications and workloads. It describes the key concepts, design principles, and architectural best practices for designing and running workloads in the cloud.
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Based on the below five pillars, it provides a consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures, and implement designs that can scale over time.
1. Operational Excellence
- The ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value
- To continually improve supporting processes and procedures
2. Security
- The ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value
3. Reliability
- Ensuring a workload performs its intended function correctly and consistently when it’s expected to
- A resilient workload quickly recovers from failures to meet business and customer demand
4. Performance Efficiency
- Focuses on using IT and computing resources efficiently
- Selecting the right resource types and sizes based on workload requirements
5. Cost Optimization
- Focuses on avoiding unnecessary costs
- Meet business needs without overspending
Drawing the diagram
- Head on to app.diagrams.net
- Search feature got you covered with finding the required icons faster
- Follow this link to explore more about Architecture Diagrams and download toolkits, assets for building architecture diagrams
- Once you done there are many formats which is available to save your work. Here I have used a png image in the describing section of this article
Describing the architecture
Amazon Route 53
- It is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service
- Once the client hits the website URL it translates the domain name into IP addresses to direct traffic to your website
- It is configured to direct to CloudFront, whenever a request is coming on to the domain name URL
- It performs domain registration, DNS service and health checking
Amazon CloudFront
- For both static and dynamic websites, you can provide low latency delivery to your global end users with Amazon CloudFront
- The origin (location where content is stored) of the CloudFront is set to the S3 bucket
- When you use AWS origins such as Amazon S3 you don’t pay for any data transferred between this service and CloudFront
Amazon Certificate Manager
- Lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services
- It is used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the Internet
- Here the certificate is attached to the CloudFront distribution
Amazon S3
- An Amazon S3 bucket name is globally unique
- Our website is hosted on a S3 bucket (with static website hosting enabled) and configured as an origin to CloudFront
References
I found this descriptive video when finding for a simple architecture for this article. Be sure to check out AWS Full-Stack YouTube channel for more content.
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