Key Takeaways from AWS reInvent 2022
AWS re:Invent 2022 (Nov 28 — Dec 2) has continued the tradition of being the most happening cloud computing technology event. While there were many sessions covering leadership, partnership, technology updates, case studies, and much more — this article focused on sharing key takeaways from the event for software architects.
#1 —Asynchrony and Event-driven Architecture enable the global scale
The key theme of Werner Vogels’ keynote highlights the benefits of building asynchronous, loosely coupled systems, and how event-driven architecture is the need of the hour to build globally scalable systems.
Synchronous is a convenience. Synchronous is a simplification. Synchronous is an abstraction. Synchronous is an illusion.
The world is asynchronous. Systems are asynchronous.— Werner Vogels (Amazon.com VP and CTO)
Amazon S3 (from 8 microservices to 250+ distributed microservices now) architecture and design principles were illustrated as an example of how we can build a globally scalable distributed service. The Distributed Computing Manifesto from the early days of Amazon was shown as an example of how to establish the foundations for building distributed systems.
