Building and Supporting Cloud-Native Architectures on AWS: Real-World Engineering Practice
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.64137/3107-9458/ICCSEMTI26-117Keywords:
Cloud-Native Architecture, AWS, Microservices, Devops, Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure As Code, Observability, Resilience Engineering, Cost OptimizationAbstract
Cloud-native architectures represent a transformative evolution from traditional monolithic systems, enabling organizations to develop scalable, resilient, and agile applications through microservices, containerization, and automated orchestration. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has emerged as a leading platform for enabling this transformation by offering a comprehensive ecosystem of infrastructure, platform, and managed services. However, a gap persists between theoretical cloud-native design principles and practical implementation realities, where engineering teams must address operational complexity, reliability challenges, security governance, cost optimization, and organizational readiness. This study examines real-world engineering practices for designing and supporting cloud-native architectures on AWS through production deployment analysis, operational case studies, and implementation-driven insights. It focuses on distributed observability, resilience engineering, DevSecOps integration, automated CI/CD pipelines, and cost optimization in dynamic cloud environments. The findings present actionable architectural patterns, operational strategies, and governance frameworks that help organizations successfully adopt and sustain cloud-native systems, bridging the divide between conceptual design and operational execution.
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