A professional-level analysis of migrating bursty, hour-long file processing from on-premises to AWS, comparing Lambda limitations, EC2 Auto Scaling, MQ vs. SQS, and EFS vs. S3 storage—culminating in a FinOps-driven decision matrix.
This drill explores the critical decision between native Windows compatibility (FSx) vs. protocol translation (S3 File Gateway) vs. POSIX-only systems (EFS) when migrating legacy Windows file shares to AWS cloud storage.
A high-traffic video platform faces buffering issues during peak hours. This drill analyzes four architectural approaches through FinOps lens, revealing why CDN + object storage beats performance-tuning a shared file system.