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AWS architecture patterns covering microservices vs monolith decisions, multi-tenancy, serverless design, database selection, and multi-account governance. Frameworks drawn from real enterprise and SaaS architecture engagements.
DuckLake spec 1 shipped on 13 April 2026 and keeps lake metadata in a SQL database. DuckDB's architecture note puts Iceberg planning at about 100 ms per sequential S3 GET, roughly half a second before a query starts. On AWS, stay on S3 Tables when Athena, Glue, or Redshift must read the table.
On August 4, 2026 Amazon Connect Cases gained workspace CSV export in 10 Regions — Cases.Export permission, field picker, Cases-export-YYYY-MM-DD.csv. Enable for the right roles only.
On 2026-07-16 AWS put PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 in RDS Preview. Our first-party REPACK CONCURRENTLY run cut an 873 MB bloated table to 429 MB in 4.5s with 60/60 concurrent SELECTs succeeding.
For an on-prem MySQL estate (~1.1 TB, 340 tables), DMS full load + CDC into Aurora MySQL cut planned downtime from 6h → 18 min — LOB misconfiguration added 11 hours of rework before cutover.
For a mid-market retailer (~2.4M SKUs, checkout p95 1.9s → 420ms), DynamoDB cart + Step Functions checkout + conditional inventory cuts held 2.1k checkout RPS — after a cache-as-inventory mistake oversold 380 units in 12 minutes.
For a .NET monolith (~220 endpoints, ~$28k/mo EC2), strangling 14 endpoints to Lambda cut p95 on those routes 1.4s → 210ms — an early LMI move on spiky traffic wasted ~$3.2k in idle capacity provider hours.
For a multi-district LMS (~52k concurrent exam submissions in 30 min), SQS decouple + Aurora Serverless v2 held p95 submit at 410 ms — off-peak monthly compute −71% vs always-on EC2.
For a card-acquiring fintech (~12M authorizations/mo), Payment Cryptography + PCI-scoped account cut HSM rack lease −$18k/mo — fraud review queue p95 2.4s → 380ms after EventBridge Pipes idempotency fix.
For an enterprise lake (~38 TB Iceberg, 8.4k small files), S3 Tables managed compaction cut Athena scan spend −35% — compaction OPEX −90% vs pre–July 2025 pricing on the same workload.
For a multi-clinic digital health platform (~2.4M FHIR resources, 180 TB imaging), HealthLake + HealthImaging cut CCDA-to-FHIR onboarding from 14 weeks to 9 days — query latency p95 820 ms → 190 ms on clinical dashboards.
For a regional PropTech platform (~420k listings, 38 MLS connectors), DynamoDB canonical store + OpenSearch geo cut median search latency from 340 ms to 48 ms — image CDN cost −62% with Intelligent-Tiering.
Q2 2026 ranked: AgentCore Harness GA (Jun 17), FinOps Agent preview (Jun 9), Graviton5 GA (Jun 10), OpenAI on Bedrock (Apr 28). Adoption matrix + verified TCO signals for CTOs.