Design it. Break it. Balance it.

Make 5 design choices for an online business. Watch its AWS diagram redraw and its scores move. Then break it on purpose.

Best on a laptop or desktop: the diagram needs the room.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Amazon Web Services. A demo of design reasoning: there is no cookie-cutter architecture.
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Pick a scenario

Each one is a real kind of business. Then pick the company: its constraints set the target zones.

  1. 1Pick a scenario and company
  2. 2Make 5 design choices and watch the diagram and scorecard change
  3. 3Break it with the Chaos Injector
  4. 4Read the trade-offs in the summary
Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Amazon Web Services. A demo of design reasoning: there is no cookie-cutter architecture.