platform

name: platform description: Cloud platform architecture and services license: MIT compatibility: opencode metadata: audience: architect, devops-engineer category: devops

What I do

• Design cloud platform architectures
• Select appropriate cloud services
• Implement multi-tenant platforms
• Configure cloud networking
• Manage cloud identities and access
• Optimize cloud resource utilization

When to use me

• When building cloud platforms
• When selecting cloud services
• When designing multi-tenant systems
• When implementing shared services
• When creating cloud center of excellence
• When governing cloud usage

Key Concepts

Cloud Platform Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    Shared Services                       │
│  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐    │
│  │  DNS    │  │  CDN    │  │  Email  │  │  Auth   │    │
│  └─────────┘  └─────────┘  └─────────┘  └─────────┘    │
└──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                       │
┌──────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────┐
│                  Network Platform                         │
│  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐    │
│  │  VPC    │  │  VPN    │  │ Firewall│  │  DNS    │    │
│  └─────────┘  └─────────┘  └─────────┘  └─────────┘    │
└──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                       │
┌──────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────┐
│                  Compute Platform                         │
│  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐    │
│  │  VMs    │  │Containers│ │Functions│ │ K8s     │    │
│  └─────────┘  └─────────┘  └─────────┘  └─────────┘    │
└──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                       │
┌──────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────┐
│                   Data Platform                           │
│  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐    │
│  │Object   │  │   DB    │  │  Cache  │  │  Data   │    │
│  │Storage  │  │         │  │         │  │ Lake    │    │
│  └─────────┘  └─────────┘  └─────────┘  └─────────┘    │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Service Selection Criteria

Multi-Account Setup

# AWS Organizations
resource "aws_organizations_organization" "main" {
  feature_set: "ALL"
}

resource "aws_organizations_organizational_unit" "production" {
  name      = "Production"
  parent_id = aws_organizations_organization.main.roots[0].id
}

resource "aws_organizations_account" "prod-network" {
  name  = "prod-network"
  email = "network@company.com"
  parent_id = aws_organizations_organizational_unit.production.id
}

resource "aws_organizations_account" "prod workloads" {
  name  = "prod-workloads"
  email = "workloads@company.com"
  parent_id = aws_organizations_organizational_unit.production.id
}

Landing Zone

# Control Tower Landing Zone
module "landing_zone" {
  source  = "aws-quickstart/qs-cfn-labs"
  version = "1.0.0"
  
  # Shared Account
  master_account_email = "master@company.com"
  master_account_name = "OrganizationMaster"
  
  # Log Archive
  log_archive_account_email = "logs@company.com"
  
  # Audit
  audit_account_email = "audit@company.com"
  
  # Organizations
  organizational_units = ["Production", "Development", "Sandbox"]
  
  #SSO
  sso_enabled = true
  sso_email = "sso-admin@company.com"
}

Well-Architected Framework

1. Operational Excellence

   • Automate changes
   • Respond to events
   • Define baselines

2. Security

   • Identity foundation
   • Protect data
   • Respond to threats

3. Reliability

   • Handle scale
   • Recover from failure
   • Test resilience

4. Performance Efficiency

   • Select architectures
   • Review continuously
   • Monitor tradeoffs

5. Cost Optimization

   • Adopt consumption model
   • Analyze and attribute
   • Use managed services

6. Sustainability

   • Understand impact
   • Maximize utilization
   • Reduce downstream impact