Templates

Architecture templates with the cost already on them.

22 systems you can open on the canvas in one click — cloud infrastructure, AI agents, and the ones that are both. Every template carries a projected monthly cost, so you know what a design is worth before you build it.

Support agent on live systems

A support agent that reads the orders database and writes back through an approval gate. Agent steps and the systems they touch on one graph.

RDS PostgresCRMS3 bucket
$275/mo projected11 nodes · infra + agents

Three-tier web application

The default shape: load balancer, containerised app tier, managed Postgres, cache and asset storage.

Load balancerECS Fargate task ×3RDS PostgresElastiCache Redis+3
$429/mo projected7 nodes

Agent with enforced write control

The pattern for letting an agent touch production: every write passes an approval gate, every action lands in a hash-chained evidence log.

RDS PostgresS3 bucketSNS topic
$252/mo projected9 nodes · infra + agents

Serverless API

HTTP API with function compute and a key-value store. Scales to zero; the floor is the gateway.

API GatewayLambdaDynamoDBS3 bucket+2
from $56/mo projected6 nodes

Retrieval service (RAG)

An answer endpoint over your own documents: vector store, retrieval step, generation step, cached responses.

API GatewayVector storeS3 data lakeElastiCache Redis
$276/mo projected10 nodes · infra + agents

Multi-account landing zone

Separate accounts per environment, one org-wide audit trail, archived logs and a budget guardrail on top.

CRMECS Fargate task ×3ECS Fargate taskCloudTrail+1
from $147/mo projected6 nodes · infra + agents

Static site on CDN

Marketing site or SPA served from object storage behind a CDN, with DNS and a WAF in front.

Route 53WAFCloudFrontS3 bucket+1
from $22/mo projected5 nodes
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Three-tier app in a VPC

The same three-tier shape drawn the way AWS actually organises it: edge in a public subnet, app and data in a private one, and the pieces that live outside the VPC outside the box.

Route 53CloudFrontLoad balancerNAT gateway+5
from $430/mo projected12 nodes · infra + agents

Container microservices

Several services behind one load balancer, sharing a database, a cache and an internal queue.

Load balancerECS Fargate task ×2ECS Fargate taskSQS queue+2
$445/mo projected7 nodes

Internal tools behind VPN

Admin and back-office apps reachable only over the VPN, on a single instance with a small database.

Site-to-site VPNEC2 t3.mediumRDS PostgreSQLS3 bucket+1
$186/mo projected5 nodes

Nightly batch ETL

Scheduled extract and load from source systems into a lake, then modelled into a warehouse.

EventBridge busLambdaS3 data lakeECS Fargate task ×2+2
from $199/mo projected6 nodes

Streaming ingest

Events land on a stream, are enriched in flight, and are written to both a lake and a search index.

API GatewayKinesis Data StreamLambdaS3 data lake+2
from $92/mo projected6 nodes

Analytics warehouse

Lake, warehouse and BI, with archival storage for anything older than the retention window.

S3 data lakeECS Fargate task ×2Redshift ServerlessCRM+1
from $172/mo projected5 nodes

Queue-backed workers

Accept work fast, process it out of band, and keep failures in a dead-letter queue instead of the logs.

API GatewaySQS queueECS Fargate task ×3Dead-letter queue+2
$229/mo projected6 nodes

Event fan-out

One published event, several independent consumers, each with its own queue and failure path.

EventBridge busSNS topicSQS queueLambda+1
from $38/mo projected7 nodes

Document processing pipeline

Files land in storage, an agent extracts structured fields, a person approves anything low-confidence, and the result is written to the database.

S3 bucketSQS queueRDS PostgreSQLS3 Glacier
from $194/mo projected11 nodes · infra + agents

Bulk classification

High-volume, low-cost classification over a queue, with the cheap model doing the work and a cap on the bill.

S3 bucketSQS queueDynamoDB
from $152/mo projected7 nodes · infra + agents

Vercel + Supabase app

The default modern startup stack: hosted front end, managed Postgres and auth, edge cache, payments.

Vercel ProSupabase ProUpstash RedisR2+1
from $63/mo projected5 nodes

Fly.io app and database

Machines close to users, Postgres in the same region, Redis for sessions and rate limits.

CDNFly Machine ×3Fly PostgresUpstash Redis
from $91/mo projected4 nodes

Railway monolith and worker

One web service, one background worker, a serverless Postgres and object storage. The smallest real stack.

Railway serviceNeon PostgresR2
from $51/mo projected4 nodes

GPU batch on Modal

Bursty GPU work triggered from a queue, with inputs and outputs in cheap object storage.

Railway serviceUpstash RedisModal GPU workerR2
from $93/mo projected5 nodes

Multi-region active-passive

Primary region serving traffic, second region warm with a replicated database and cross-region backups.

Route 53Load balancerECS Fargate task ×3RDS Postgres+3
$522/mo projected8 nodes

Costs are projections from August 2026 list prices, assuming always-on resources. Connect a cloud account and the same nodes carry your billed figures instead.

Open any of them on the canvas.

Templates load as real, editable graphs — the same ones the copilot and the runtime read.