Well-Architected Framework

Overview

The AWS Well-Architected Framework describes key concepts, design principles, and architectural best-practices for designing and running workloads in the cloud.

The Six Pillars

Operational Excellence

The operational excellence pillar focuses on running and monitoring systems and continually improving processes and procedures.

• Key topics
  • automating changes
  • responding to events
  • defining standards to manage daily operations

Security

The security pillar focuses on protecting information and systems.

• Key topics
  • confidentiality of data
  • integrity of data
  • managing user permissions
  • establishing controls to detect security of events

Reliability

The reliability pillar focuses on workloads performing their intended functions and how to recover quickly from failure to meet demands.

• Key topics
  • distributed system design
  • recovery planning
  • adapting to changing requirements.

Performance Efficiency

The performance efficiency pillar focuses on structured and streamlined allocation of IT and computing resources.

• Key topics
  • Optimizing workload requirements
    • Selecting appropriate resource types
    • Selecting appropriate resource suzes
  • Monitoring Performance
  • Maintaining Efficiency as business needs evolve

Cost Optimization

The cost optimization pillar focuses on avoiding unnecessary costs.

• Key Topics
  • understanding spending over time
  • controlling fun allocation
  • selecting resources of right type and quanitity
  • scaling to meet business needs without overspending

Sustainability

The sustainability pillar focuses on minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads.

• Key topics
  • Shared Responsibility Model for sustainability
  • Understanding impact
  • Maximizing utilization to minimize required resources and reduce downstream impacts