What Is Cloud Patterns?
Cloud Patterns is a curated collection of proven AWS architectures for platform engineering teams.
Every pattern here has been implemented in production environments, battle-tested under real traffic, and refined through actual operational experience.
Who Is This For?
- Platform engineers building shared infrastructure for their companies
- DevOps teams standardizing AWS architectures across projects
- Engineering managers evaluating infrastructure approaches
- Consultants looking for reference architectures and best practices
What You’ll Find Here
Multi-Account AWS - Organizations setup, Transit Gateway networking, security baselines, cross-account IAM
Production EKS - Secure Kubernetes clusters with autoscaling, monitoring, and CI/CD integration
Infrastructure as Code - Terraform and Terragrunt patterns for enterprise-scale IaC
Security Baselines - CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM Identity Center, compliance patterns
CI/CD Pipelines - GitHub Actions and GitLab CI patterns for infrastructure and application deployments
Why Trust These Patterns?
These aren’t theoretical best practices or vendor marketing. Every pattern documented here comes from real implementations:
- Built for companies with 50-1,000+ engineers
- Handling production traffic at scale
- Meeting compliance requirements (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI)
- Maintained and evolved over years of operation
About the Author
Cloud Patterns is maintained by Glenn Gray, a Staff Cloud Architect with 12+ years building AWS platforms for enterprise companies.
Recent work includes a 6-account AWS foundation with Transit Gateway, production EKS clusters, and Terraform/Terragrunt IaC serving 50+ engineering teams.
Get in Touch
- Consulting inquiries: graycloudarch.com
- Email: glenn@cloudpatterns.io
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tallgray
Coming Soon
- Detailed implementation guides for all patterns
- Video courses on AWS platform engineering
- Terraform module library and starter templates
- Case studies from real platform implementations
Check back regularly for updates, or connect on LinkedIn to stay informed.