Decision Matrix

Cross-Account S3 Access Trade-offs | SAA-C03

11 December 2025·636 words·3 mins

Architecture Drills Cloud Provider (AWS) AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix Amazon S3

A company wants to restrict an S3 bucket’s access only to users within its AWS Organization accounts with minimal operational overhead. We analyze four approaches to meet this requirement.

S3 Log Analytics Trade-offs | SAA-C03

10 December 2025·1335 words·7 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix Amazon Athena S3 Serverless Analytics Amazon Redshift AWS Glue

A fintech startup needs to query JSON logs in S3 with minimal operational overhead and no infrastructure changes. This drill explores why serverless query engines beat traditional data warehouses for ad-hoc analytics workloads.

Hybrid DNS Trade-offs in Route 53 Resolver | SAP-C02

9 December 2025·874 words·5 mins

Architecture Drills Cloud Provider (AWS) AWS SAP-C02 FinOps Decision Matrix Route 53 Resolver

A multinational enterprise requires a highly performant hybrid DNS architecture integrating on-premises systems with AWS VPC private hosted zones. This drill analyzes design options to balance latency, operational simplicity, and FinOps impact.

Global S3 Ingestion—Acceleration vs Replication | SAA-C03

9 December 2025·886 words·5 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix S3 Transfer Acceleration Data Ingestion Global Architecture

Analyze the decision logic behind choosing S3 Transfer Acceleration over multi-region replication strategies for global data ingestion workloads with high-speed connectivity.