Architecture Drills

Example 09: AWS SAA-C03 Drill: Multi-Region Disaster Recovery - The RTO vs. Cost Trade-off Analysis

25 November 2025·1144 words·6 mins

Architecture Drills AWS AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix Disaster Recovery DynamoDB Global Tables Route 53 Auto Scaling Multi-Region

A regional e-commerce platform needs DR capabilities with minimal downtime. We analyze four approaches spanning hot standby to cold recovery, examining the critical balance between RTO objectives and infrastructure costs.

Example 04: AWS SAP-C02 Drill: On-Prem Kubernetes Management - The Cost-Operations Trade-off Analysis

15 November 2025·815 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Cloud Provider (AWS) SAP-C02 FinOps Decision Matrix Amazon EKS Hybrid Kubernetes

Explore a hybrid Kubernetes scenario where a company must run production workloads on-premises with minimal operational overhead, weighing AWS Outposts vs EKS Anywhere as solutions.

Example 05: AWS SAA Drill: Multi-Region Disaster Recovery - The Trade-off Analysis

1 April 2025·811 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Cloud Provider (AWS) AWS SAA FinOps Decision Matrix Disaster Recovery DynamoDB Auto Scaling

A technology firm’s application runs on EC2 Auto Scaling groups behind an ELB with a DynamoDB backend. The goal: design a multi-region DR strategy with minimal downtime. Various approaches involve global tables, CloudFormation automation, and DNS failover mechanisms.