Exercises: Cloud Architecture

Concept Drills

• Explain scalability, reliability, security, cost, and performance.
• Explain public vs private networking.
• Explain managed vs self-hosted services.
• Explain high availability and disaster recovery.

Design Drills

• Design a RAG platform architecture.
• Design an agent platform architecture.
• Design a data ingestion architecture.
• Design monitoring and alerting.
• Create a cost estimate.

Failure Drills

• Simulate database outage response.
• Simulate model provider outage response.
• Simulate traffic spike response.
• Simulate secret leak response.

Output

• Architecture diagrams.
• Cost estimate.
• Disaster recovery plan.
• ADR for major architecture choices.