// Multi-region, highly available architecture
const productionArchitecture = {
// 1. Data Layer
dataLayer: {
// Primary table with Global Tables
mainTable: {
name: 'Production',
billingMode: 'PAY_PER_REQUEST', // Auto-scales
globalTables: ['us-east-1', 'us-west-2', 'eu-west-1'],
pointInTimeRecovery: true, // 35-day backup
encryption: {
type: 'KMS',
keyId: 'app-key'
},
streams: {
enabled: true,
viewType: 'NEW_AND_OLD_IMAGES'
}
},
// Caching layer
cache: {
dax: {
clusterSize: 3, // Multi-AZ
nodeType: 'dax.r5.large',
ttl: 300
},
redis: {
clusterMode: true,
replicasPerShard: 2,
useCase: 'Aggregations, leaderboards'
}
}
},
// 2. Application Layer
applicationLayer: {
// Connection pool
connectionPool: {
maxConnections: 50,
keepAlive: true,
timeout: 5000
},
// Retry logic
retryPolicy: {
maxRetries: 5,
exponentialBackoff: true,
jitter: true
},
// Circuit breaker
circuitBreaker: {
failureThreshold: 5,
resetTimeout: 60000
}
},
// 3. Monitoring
monitoring: {
cloudWatch: {
alarms: [
'ReadThrottleEvents > 10',
'WriteThrottleEvents > 10',
'SystemErrors > 5',
'SuccessfulRequestLatency > 100ms'
],
dashboards: [
'Capacity utilization',
'Latency trends',
'Error rates'
]
},
xray: {
enabled: true,
samplingRate: 0.1 // 10% of requests
},
customMetrics: {
businessMetrics: [
'Orders per second',
'Active users',
'Transaction success rate'
]
}
},
// 4. Security
security: {
iam: {
leastPrivilege: true,
itemLevelAccess: true
},
encryption: {
atRest: 'KMS',
inTransit: 'TLS',
clientSide: 'Sensitive fields only'
},
vpcEndpoints: {
enabled: true,
privateAccess: true
},
auditLogging: {
streams: true,
cloudTrail: true,
retention: 90 // days
}
},
// 5. Disaster Recovery
disasterRecovery: {
rto: '< 2 minutes',
rpo: '< 1 second',
strategy: {
multiRegion: true,
automaticFailover: true,
healthChecks: {
interval: 30, // seconds
failureThreshold: 3
}
},
backups: {
pitr: true,
onDemand: 'daily',
s3Export: 'weekly'
},
testing: {
drDrills: 'quarterly',
chaosEngineering: true
}
},
// 6. Cost Optimization
costOptimization: {
capacityMode: 'Analyze and adjust monthly',
reservedCapacity: 'For baseline load',
ttl: 'Auto-cleanup old data',
itemSize: 'Minimized with compression',
budgets: {
monthly: 10000,
alerts: [80, 90, 100] // % of budget
}
}
};
// Implementation example
class ProductionDynamoDBService {
constructor() {
this.dynamodb = this.createClient();
this.dax = this.createDAXClient();
this.redis = new Redis({ cluster: true });
this.circuitBreaker = new CircuitBreaker();
}
createClient() {
return new AWS.DynamoDB.DocumentClient({
region: process.env.AWS_REGION,
maxRetries: 5,
httpOptions: {
timeout: 5000,
agent: new https.Agent({
keepAlive: true,
maxSockets: 50
})
}
});
}
async getItem(key) {
// Layer 1: Check Redis
const cached = await this.redis.get(JSON.stringify(key));
if (cached) return JSON.parse(cached);
// Layer 2: Check DAX
try {
const result = await this.dax.get({
TableName: 'Production',
Key: key
}).promise();
if (result.Item) {
await this.redis.setex(JSON.stringify(key), 300, JSON.stringify(result.Item));
return result.Item;
}
} catch (error) {
// DAX failed, fall through to DynamoDB
}
// Layer 3: DynamoDB with circuit breaker
return await this.circuitBreaker.execute(async () => {
const result = await this.dynamodb.get({
TableName: 'Production',
Key: key
}).promise();
return result.Item;
});
}
}