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Event-Driven API Backend

An agile, fully serverless microservices backend combining managed API gateways, message queues, and rapid cache lookups.

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Workload Costs Comparison

Prices by provider and services that enable users to run this workload. Shape the architecture with the four Well-Architected controls below — Capacity, Performance, Reliability, and Security. Components and prices recompute as you adjust each priority (e.g. higher Security adds a WAF, KMS, and threat monitoring), and you can switch region or pricing model to compare like-for-like.

Pricing Model

PAYG shows monthly on-demand cost.
Yearly are committed-use discounts.

Providers

Region

Well-Architected Priorities

CapacityAPI Request Volume

PerformanceSpeed — instance class, storage media, caching

ReliabilityRedundancy — HA, replicas, backups, load balancing

SecurityHardening — WAF, key management, threat detection

What this builds

🚪API Gateway⚙️Serverless Compute📨Message Queue💨Distributed Cache×2🗄️NoSQL Database×2

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