Operational Excellence – The ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to continually improve supporting processes and procedures.
Security – The ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
Reliability – The ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service disruptions, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand, and mitigate disruptions such as misconfigurations or transient network issues.
Performance Efficiency – The ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.
Cost Optimization – The ability to run systems to deliver business value at
the lowest price point.
Whether you are a startup, a unicorn, or an enterprise, the AWS Well-Architected Framework will point you in the right direction and then guide you along the way as you build your cloud applications.
Lots of Updates
Today we are making a host of updates to the Well-Architected Framework! Here’s an overview:
- Operational Excellence (PDF, Kindle, Lab)
- Security (PDF, Kindle, Lab)
- Reliability (PDF, Kindle, Lab)
- Performance Efficiency (PDF, Kindle, Lab)
- Cost Optimization (PDF, Kindle, Lab)
Well-Architected Tool – We have updated the AWS Well-Architected Tool to reflect the updates that we made to the Framework and to the White Papers.
Learning More
In addition to the documents that I linked above, you should also watch these videos.
In this video, AWS customer Cox Automotive talks about how they are using AWS Well-Architected to deliver results across over 200 platforms:
In this video, my colleague Rodney Lester tells you how to build better workloads with the Well-Architected Framework and Tool:
Get Started Today
If you are like me, a lot of interesting services and ideas are stashed away in a pile of things that I hope to get to “someday.” Given the importance of the five pillars that I mentioned above, I’d suggest that Well-Architected does not belong in that pile, and that you should do all that you can to learn more and to become well-architected as soon as possible!
— Jeff;
Originally posted on AWS News Blog
Author: Jeff Barr