Cloud architecture patterns – vendor frameworks and best practices

All cloud providers have been constantly churning out services and improving existing services to meet increasing customer needs. Just like most programming languages, you can use different approaches and different components to do the same things. The variety of choices and feature explosion is making it hard for customers to choose the optimal solution. This can result in sub-optimal cloud solutions and has an impact on the business value customers can derive from their cloud adoption.

Amid these overwhelming options and confusion, the top three cloud vendors – AWS, GCP, and Azure – have produced cloud architecture frameworks to aid their customers. The aim is to lay out best practices and architectural solutions that address common business problems. The cloud vendors named their frameworks as follows:

• Amazon Web Services: AWS Well-Architected Framework (https://aws.amazon.com/architecture...