architect-for-startups
Startup-tailored AWS architecture advice for non-agent workloads, adjusted to the company's stage (pre-revenue through Series B+), team size, runway, and credits. Not for AI agents: deploying an AI agent on AWS, picking its runtime, or any agentic architecture is agent-advisor. Use when a founder wants guidance or a recommendation rather than code changes: which services to choose, how to plan or review an architecture, how to stretch credits and control cost, or how to prepare architecture for a fundraise or technical diligence. For an interactive discovery flow that scaffolds and writes the architecture into the codebase, use start-building-for-startups. Do not use for: writing or scaffolding code, factual AWS Activate / programs / credits lookups (see knowledge-base-for-startups), a single copy-paste prompt (see prompt-library-for-startups), or migration intent such as GCP-to-AWS, Azure-to-AWS, or Heroku-to-AWS (see the migration skills: gcp-to-aws, azure-to-aws, heroku-to-aws, llm-to-bedrock).
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- skills/architect-for-startups/SKILL.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/agentcore.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/api-gateway.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/aws-architect.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/aws-plan.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/bedrock.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/challenger.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/cloudfront.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/cost-check.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/credits-strategy.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/customer-ideation.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/dynamodb.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/ec2.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/ecs.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/eks.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/iac-scaffold.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/iam.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/investor-readiness.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/iot.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/lambda.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/messaging.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/migration-apprunner-to-ecs-express.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/migration-azure-to-aws.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/mlops.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/networking.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/observability.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/rapid-patterns.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/rds-aurora.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/s3.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/security-review.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/stage-frameworks.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/step-functions.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/strands-agent.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/team-scaling.md
- skills/architect-for-startups/references/well-architected.md
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