Introduction to the AWS Well-Architected Framework

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Amar Suchak

Software Engineer, Microsoft

What is the Well-Architected Framework?

The Well-Architected Framework provides cloud architects with strategies and guidelines for building resilient, scalable, and secure architectures on AWS

The six pillars

The six pillars of the framework: Security, Cost Optimization, Performance Efficiency, Sustainability, Operational Excellence and Reliability

Security

Protecting data, systems and assets
Confidential data through robust identity and access management
Controls to detect and mitigate security threats

The Security Pillar

Cost optimization

Avoid unnecessary expenses
Cost-effective decisions to ensure value on your cloud investment

The Cost Optimization Pillar

Performance Efficiency

Compute resources used effectively
Optimal performance to meet demands
Efficiency as workloads evolve

The Performance Efficiency Pillar

Sustainability

Minimize environmental impact of running cloud
Aligning your cloud strategy to your corporate environmental goals

The Sustainability Pillar

Operational Excellence

Organize teams around business outcomes and implement observability for actionable insights
Automate where possible
Make frequent, small, reversible changes and refine operations procedures frequently
Anticipate failure and learn from all operational events and metrics
Use managed services

The Operational Excellence Pillar

Reliability

Automatically recover from failure
Test recovery procedures
Horizontal scaling
Stop guessing capacity

The Reliability Pillar

Let's practice!

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