Disclaimer: At the time of this article’s writing, I work at Amazon, but not in AWS. This article is based on my own research and ideas and is not the official position of Amazon. This article is not intended as marketing material for AWS, only as some architectural patterns for you to use if you do leverage AWS.
AWS provides a number of different resources that you can use to build services using, including S3 buckets, SQS queues, etc. When you create a new instance of that resource, you must pick a name that usually must be unique in a given namespace. Depending on your naming scheme, you may also have to start embedding resource names in code or configuration files. This makes spinning up new regions difficult as now you have to update configuration with names for every stage/region that you might use. This may not seem like that big of a deal, but consider that you may have tens of different SQS queues, S3 buckets, etc. for each region/stage. This can begin to combinatorically explode as you now have # regions * # stages * # resources of different configuration definitions. This results in a lot of boilerplate.
But what if there was a better way?
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