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

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The six pillars

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

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Security

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

The Security Pillar

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Cost optimization

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

The Cost Optimization Pillar

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Performance Efficiency

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

The Performance Efficiency Pillar

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Sustainability

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

The Sustainability Pillar

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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

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Reliability

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

The Reliability Pillar

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