AWS Well-Architected Framework

Are you following AWS Best Practices?

The AWS Well-Architected Framework assists cloud architects in the development of secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications. The Framework provides a consistent approach for analysing architectures and designing solutions that will grow over time, based on five pillars. AWS suggests performing architectural reviews every 3-6 months as part of your usual operations to ensure you're taking advantage of the new features and services AWS releases on a regular basis.

Pillars of Well-Architected Framework

Operational Excellence

We manage and monitor systems to ensure that they produce business value and that processes and procedures are continually improved. Key areas include managing and automating changes, responding to events, and defining standards.

Security

Protect your information and systems. Key topics include confidentiality and integrity of data, identifying and managing who can do what with privilege management, protecting systems, and establishing controls to detect security events.

Performance Efficiency

Utilize IT and computing resources efficiently. We focus on selecting the right resource types and sizes based on workload requirements, monitoring performance, and making informed decisions to maintain efficiency.

Cost Optimization

Avoid unnecessary costs. Key topics we address include understanding and controlling where money is being spent, selecting the most appropriate and right number of resource types, and analyzing spend over time.

Sustainability

It addresses the long-term environmental, economic, and societal impact of your business activities.

Reliability

It encompasses the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it’s expected to. This includes the ability to operate and test the workload through its total lifecycle.