# Microservices in AWS: Migrating from a Monolith

DevFeed: [Microservices in AWS: Migrating from a Monolith](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/microservices-in-aws-migrating-from-a-monolith-18014.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.guilleojeda.com/microservices-in-aws-migrating-from-a-monolith>)

Author: Guillermo Ojeda

Published: 2023-08-29T01:36:01Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Guille Ojeda](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/guille-ojeda.md>)

Topics: [Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservice.md>), [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Domain-driven design (DDD)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/domain-driven-design.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [domain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/domain.md>), [domain-driven-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/domain-driven-design.md>), [enterprise-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enterprise-architecture.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [rest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest.md>), [software-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-architecture.md>)

## AI overview

An article introducing microservices and explaining their defining characteristics: bounded-context ownership, independent construction, deployment and scaling, and communication through clearly defined APIs. It also cautions that microservices are not necessary for most applications.

## Source excerpt

The first rule about microservices is that you don't need microservices (for 99% of applications). They were invented as a REST-based implementation of Service-Oriented Architectures, which is an XML-based Enterprise Architecture pattern so complex t...