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TRACK 06

RUST CLOUD
ENGINEER

Deploy resilient, cost-efficient cloud services using Rust's minimal runtime footprint.

01

CONTAINERIZATION & WASM

Multi-stage Docker builds, scratch-based images under 10 MB, and WASM targets for serverless cold-start performance.

DockerWASMSpin
book

Multi-stage Rust Dockerfile guide

Official Docker documentation covering multi-stage builds. Produces tiny scratch-based final images under 10 MB for Rust services.

docs.docker.com/get-started/workshop/
book

Rust and WebAssembly — official book

Deploy Rust as WASM for serverless platforms. Covers wasm-bindgen, wasm-pack, and JavaScript interop.

rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/
repo

Spin — serverless WASM framework

Build and deploy serverless apps in Rust targeting WebAssembly. Near-zero cold starts with Fermyon Cloud or self-hosted.

github.com/fermyon/spin
02

OBSERVABILITY STACK

Structured tracing with tokio-tracing and OpenTelemetry. Shipping spans and metrics to Jaeger, Prometheus, and Grafana.

tracingOpenTelemetryPrometheus
repo

tokio-rs/tracing — structured logging

The standard for structured, async-aware logging and tracing in Rust. Integrates with OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, and Datadog backends.

github.com/tokio-rs/tracing
repo

opentelemetry-rust — OTel SDK

Official Rust implementation of the OpenTelemetry SDK. Export traces and metrics to any OTLP-compatible backend.

github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust
repo

prometheus — Rust client library

Instrument Rust services with counters, gauges, and histograms. Expose a /metrics endpoint for Prometheus scraping.

github.com/prometheus/client_rust
03

AWS & INFRA AS CODE

Lambda functions in Rust via the runtime SDK. Pulumi IaC in Rust. S3, SQS, DynamoDB integrations using the AWS SDK.

LambdaPulumiAWS SDK
repo

aws-lambda-rust-runtime

Official AWS Lambda runtime for Rust. Write Lambda handlers as standard async functions. Ships as a tiny static binary.

github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime
repo

AWS SDK for Rust

Official AWS SDK covering S3, SQS, DynamoDB, RDS, and 300+ other services. Fully async with Tokio.

github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-rust
book

Pulumi — IaC with Rust

Define cloud infrastructure as Rust code. Provision ECS, RDS, VPCs, and IAM roles with full type safety.

pulumi.com/docs/languages-sdks/
project

Deploy to AWS — ECS + RDS PostgreSQL

Deploy a Rust service to ECS Free Tier pointing at RDS PostgreSQL. Add GitHub Actions CI/CD and Grafana Cloud monitoring. Gives you a real production URL for your portfolio.

aws.amazon.com/free/

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