aws-solution-architect

AWS Solution Architect helps design scalable, cost-effective AWS architectures for startups, emphasizing serverless patterns and infrastructure-as-code. It addresses the difficulty of choosing among AWS services and translating requirements into a concrete, budget-aware design with deployable templates, guiding the user from requirements through architecture selection, IaC generation, and cost review.

The workflow gathers specifications (application type, expected load, budget, team maturity, compliance needs like GDPR/HIPAA/SOC 2, and availability targets), then runs a Python architecture designer that recommends a pattern with a service stack, estimated monthly cost, and pros/cons. It offers four patterns — Serverless Web (S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB), Event-Driven Microservices (EventBridge, Lambda, SQS, Step Functions), Three-Tier (ALB, ECS Fargate, Aurora, ElastiCache), and GraphQL Backend (AppSync, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito). Additional scripts generate CloudFormation/SAM and CDK templates and run a cost optimizer that suggests right-sizing, savings plans, and S3 lifecycle transitions. Bundled reference documents cover service selection with decision matrices, per-service limits and pricing, architecture patterns, and best practices.

The skill targets startup engineers, technical founders, and solution architects who want opinionated, cost-conscious AWS designs and starter IaC. It is a benign design-and-generation assistant: its scripts produce templates and recommendations locally and its examples reference standard AWS SDK usage, with no destructive operations, credential exfiltration, or live account mutation described.