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How to build a scalable architecture with AWS

17 min readAug 7, 2018

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Final setup for the finished project (created with Cloudcraft)

Designing the Architecture

First Concept with removed components

Think of the structure and technologies, not implementations

Final Architecture

Who’s “The One” Cloud Provider?

Documentation and Communities are Key

The Components

Article Collection

Article Collection Part
NewsAPI query for 1 hour of data from the beginning of the year
Lambda GUI on AWS

Special Characters are evil…

Solution to the URLEncoded key problem

Data Enrichment

Data Enrichment Part

Empty Strings in DynamoDB are also evil

“Dirty” Fix for the empty String problem

Frontend

Frontend Part
GUI of StateOfVegnsim

Playing it cool and deploying the AWS keys in the front end

Policies, Policies?… Policies!

IAM-Policy and Resource Policy

What’s next?

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TimG
TimG

Written by TimG

Passionate learner and developer. Studying computer science at the Media University. Looking forward to work with ingenious teams on challenging projects.

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