Aws Microservices Architecture Best Practices

As we sail past the halfway point between re invent 2018 and re invent 2019 i d like to revisit some of the recent serverless announcements we ve made.

Aws microservices architecture best practices. We first describe different aspects of a highly scalable fault tolerant microservices architecture user interface microservices implementation and data store and how to build it on aws leveraging container technologies. By following ten basic microservices best practices you can achieve an efficient microservices ecosystem devoid of unnecessary architectural complexities. These services are owned by small self contained teams. This creates a view across microservices that requires aggregation in a central aws account or external tool.

Data source integrations physical hardware software networking and facilities provisioning application code container orchestration provisioning. Using a central api account is similar to the separate account architecture except the api gateway apis are in a central account. We then recommend the aws services for implementing a typical serverless microservices architecture in order to reduce operational complexity. This architecture is the best approach for most users.

The aws architecture center provides reference architecture diagrams vetted architecture solutions well architected best practices patterns icons and more. Microservices are an architectural and organizational approach to software development where software is composed of small independent services that communicate over well defined apis. Monolithic architecture the entire node js application is run in a container as a single service and each container has the same features as all other containers. In many cases design patterns of the twelve factor app are leveraged for microservices.

A central idea of a microservices architecture is to split functionalities into cohesive verticals not by technological layers but by implementing a specific domain. Microservices architecture user interface microservices implementation and data store and how to build it on aws leveraging container technologies. Microservices architectures make applications easier to scale and faster to develop enabling innovation and accelerating time to market for new features. These are all complimentary to the patterns discussed in the re invent architecture track s serverless architectural patterns and best practices session.

Figure 1 depicts a reference architecture for a typical microservices application on aws. After you are done you can use this tutorial and the code in it as a template to build and deploy your own containerized microservices on aws.