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Event-driven microservices architecture on AWS combining CloudFront CDN, API Gateway, Lambda functions, and DynamoDB with integrated observability and cost tracking. User requests flow through CloudFront to S3-hosted frontend, then via API Gateway to Lambda functions that publish events to an event bus for asynchronous processing. Service discovery and sidecar patterns (Auth, X-Ray) enforce security and distributed tracing across the microservices layer. CloudWatch aggregates metrics and logs into dashboards while Cost Explorer tracks FinOps metrics from the event bus, enabling real-time visibility into performance and spending. This architecture demonstrates serverless best practices: decoupled services, event-driven communication, centralized observability, and cost optimization. Fork and customize this diagram on Diagrams.so to match your AWS account topology, add additional Lambda functions, or extend event consumers.

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How do I design an event-driven microservices architecture on AWS with API Gateway, Lambda, and observability?

This diagram shows a complete serverless event-driven architecture where API Gateway routes requests to Lambda functions that publish events to an event bus for asynchronous processing. Service discovery, sidecar patterns for auth and X-Ray tracing, DynamoDB persistence, and CloudWatch dashboards provide security, observability, and cost tracking across all microservices.

AWS Microservices Event-Driven Architecture

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Domain: ServerlessAudience: AWS solutions architects designing event-driven microservices
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August 8, 2026

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August 13, 2026 at 6:34 AM

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microservices

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