Solutions Architect’s Handbook, Third Edition

Designing for Cloud-Native Success

The solutions architect role sits at the intersection of business needs and technical execution. This handbook helps you understand that role and build the skills required to design systems that are secure, reliable, performant, and cost-effective. It starts with the core responsibilities and then moves into architecture design pillars, providing a clear path for IT professionals transitioning into cloud architecture.

What’s Inside the Third Edition

• Foundational design principles: security, reliability, performance, cost optimization, and operational excellence
• Cloud migration strategies and modernization approaches, including mainframe considerations
• Cloud-native patterns, microservices, serverless, containers, and CI/CD pipelines
• Over 50 application development design patterns with reference architectures
• Data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and MLOps
• Generative AI architecture, foundation models, and GenAI tools
• CloudOps and moving prototypes to production

Updated for the Generative AI Era

The third edition dedicates significant attention to generative AI and deep learning. It explains foundation models, explores available GenAI tools, and discusses how to incorporate them into cloud architectures. The material on storage technologies and advanced analytics supports robust infrastructure for ML workloads.

Insights from Experienced Architects

Authors Saurabh Shrivastava and Neelanjali Srivastav bring decades of experience at AWS and in enterprise software. Their practical perspective is complemented by forewords from AWS leaders and reviews by industry experts, ensuring the guidance is both current and grounded in real-world practice.

Who Will Benefit

This ebook is valuable for software developers, system administrators, IT managers, and anyone looking to move into a solutions architect role. Current architects will also find it useful as a reference for modernizing their skills, especially around cloud-native design and generative AI.

Available as a digital download from Digital Delights, so you can start reading immediately and keep the handbook accessible across your devices.