Lesson 16: Implementation Roadmap: Your 90-Day Multi-Region Plan

Multi-Region Platform Engineering: AWS, Kubernetes, and Aurora at Scale

Episode 16 of 16 | Duration: 18 minutes

Target Audience: Senior platform engineers, SREs, DevOps engineers (5+ years experience)

Phase 1 (Days 1-21): Foundation - Transit Gateway, VPC setup, IAM structure, observability infrastructure
Phase 2 (Days 22-45): Data layer - Aurora Global Database or DynamoDB Global Tables, replication validation
Phase 3 (Days 46-75): Compute layer - EKS clusters, application deployment, cross-region service discovery
Phase 4 (Days 76-90): Validation - Chaos engineering, failover testing, performance benchmarking, cost analysis
Go-no-go gates: Technical milestones, cost validation, team readiness assessment at each phase
Abort criteria: ROI falls below 5x, costs exceed projections by 20%, technical blockers can't be resolved