CLOUD · AWS

AWS Architecture Journey

Building cloud architecture skills by designing, testing and documenting real AWS environments.

Extending a networking foundation into cloud architecture.

My background is in telecommunications, networking and solution architecture. AWS is the next layer I’m adding to that foundation.

Rather than learning only for a certification exam, I want to build real environments, understand the design decisions behind them and document what happens when things work — and when they fail.

What I plan to build.

01

Production-Style VPC

Public and private subnets, routing, Internet Gateway, NAT, security groups and multi-AZ design.

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02

Highly Available Application

Load balancing, Auto Scaling, EC2 and resilient database design.

03

Multi-VPC Architecture

Production, development and shared-services VPCs connected through Transit Gateway.

04

Hybrid Cloud

Connecting enterprise infrastructure to AWS using VPN, Direct Connect concepts and BGP.

05

Infrastructure as Code

Rebuilding AWS environments using Terraform and reusable modules.

06

Cloud + AI Infrastructure

Exploring how cloud architecture connects to GPU workloads and modern AI infrastructure.

Learn. Build. Break. Fix. Document.

For each topic, I plan to build a working environment first, then deliberately test failure scenarios and routing behavior.

Each completed lab will include architecture diagrams, design notes, lessons learned and eventually Terraform code in GitHub.

In progress.

Current focus

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Next build

Production-Style AWS VPC

Documentation

Architecture diagrams + GitHub notes