Conclusion

After reviewing the concepts for reactive systems, you should have a good understanding of the landscape of potential AWS services you can choose to build a reactive system on AWS.

The key patterns in this paper, highlighted the necessary concepts for implementing the foundational building block for reactive systems. The characteristics of reactive systems based on the definition of the reactive manifesto.

The example architecture utilizes the same patterns on a micro-level which are being used on an architectural macro-level. The AWS services are a great starting point to implement reactive principles and microservices improve isolation of different workloads. In combination with managed services, you can focus on the business requirements and remove the undifferentiated heavy lifting.