Reference Architectures Index¶

Master index of vendor-published reference architecture resources organized by provider.

AWS¶

AWS Architecture Center -- central hub for all AWS reference architectures, solution guides, and diagrams
AWS Well-Architected Labs -- hands-on labs organized by the six Well-Architected Framework pillars
AWS Prescriptive Guidance -- opinionated patterns and guides for common cloud scenarios
AWS Solutions Library -- deployable reference implementations for common workloads

Networking -- Networking & Content Delivery architectures, VPC scenarios, Multi-account network design
IAM & Security -- Security Reference Architecture (SRA), Security, Identity, & Compliance architectures
Databases -- Database architectures, Aurora Global Database, Database migration patterns
Compute -- Compute architectures, Spot best practices, EC2 Image Builder
Caching -- ElastiCache best practices, Caching strategies
Edge & CDN -- CloudFront origin failover, WAF Security Automations, DDoS mitigation
Observability -- Observability Best Practices, Centralized Logging with OpenSearch, Management & Governance architectures
Secrets -- Secrets Manager rotation, EKS Secrets Store CSI Driver

Azure Architecture Center -- central hub for Azure reference architectures, best practices, and design patterns
Azure Well-Architected Framework -- design principles and service guides across reliability, security, cost, performance, and operations
Azure Cloud Adoption Framework -- enterprise landing zone architecture and governance patterns
Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA) -- comprehensive reference for Microsoft security services

Networking -- Hub-spoke topology, Networking architectures, Landing Zone network design
Compute -- VM architectures, VMSS autoscaling, Well-Architected VM guide
Data -- Data architecture guide, Azure SQL HA, Cosmos DB multi-region
Security -- Security architectures, Landing Zone security, Identity architectures

Google Cloud Architecture Center -- central hub for GCP reference architectures, best practices, and design guides
Google Cloud Architecture Framework -- design principles covering system design, reliability, security, cost, and performance
Google Cloud Enterprise Foundations Blueprint -- enterprise-grade organization structure, IAM, and security baseline

Networking -- Networking architectures, Hub-and-spoke design, Hybrid/multi-cloud topologies, Cloud Armor best practices
Compute -- Compute architectures, Compute Engine best practices, Scalable web apps on Compute Engine
Data -- Database architectures, Spanner reference architectures, Cloud SQL HA, Bigtable schema design
Security -- Security architectures, VPC Service Controls best practices, Security Command Center

Nutanix Validated Designs -- vendor-validated architectures for enterprise applications
Nutanix Reference Architecture Library -- tested architectures for databases, EUC, DevOps, and hybrid cloud
The Nutanix Bible -- comprehensive architecture guide for the Nutanix Cloud Platform

AHV best practice guide -- hypervisor configuration, networking, and storage best practices
DR and Business Continuity designs -- Leap-based disaster recovery and metro availability validated designs

Note: VMware documentation URLs may redirect following the Broadcom acquisition (2023). Verify links before citing.

VMware Validated Solutions -- tested and validated SDDC architectures for private cloud and edge
VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture Guide -- full-stack SDDC reference architecture

vSAN Design Guide -- hyper-converged storage sizing, fault domains, and stretched clusters
NSX Reference Design Guide -- microsegmentation, distributed firewall, and multi-site networking
Tanzu Reference Architecture -- Kubernetes on vSphere validated designs

OpenStack Architecture Design Guide -- official architecture guide for compute, storage, networking, and multi-site design
OpenStack Deployment Guides -- deployment architectures for Kolla-Ansible, TripleO, and other tools

High Availability Guide -- HA control plane, database clustering, and message queue resilience
Ceph integration reference -- Ceph as unified storage backend for Cinder, Glance, and Manila
Red Hat OpenStack Platform documentation -- enterprise deployment architectures with director-based lifecycle management