Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In late 2017, CorpInfo did an AWS "This is My Architecture" video. The video walks through how they handled a massive amount of events coming from various IoT devices they had deployed. Remember, this was before any of the AWS IoT-specific services!

Now, a few years later, I react to that video and see what's stood the test of time, what could be done simpler given today's technology, and generally critique the design against the AWS Well-Architected Framework in a mini AWS Well-Architected Review.

The original video: youtu.be/s9y_TeEfs10

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Index:
- [00:00] Intro
- [00:27] Introductions
- [01:15] Problem statement
- [03:43] Segmentation
- [05:21] Device events
- [08:19] Aligning to users
- [10:36] Tuning data for write
- [12:55] Can we improve?