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AWS Well-Architected Framework

Concepts, design principles and best practices for building in the cloud

• Operational excellence: Run and monitor systems, and keep improving processes and procedures
  • Organize teams around business outcomes
  • Implement observability for actionable insights
  • Safely automate where possible
  • Make frequent, small, reversible changes
  • Refine operations procedures frequently
  • Anticipate failure
  • Learn from all operational events and metrics
  • Use managed services
• Security: Protect data, systems and assets
  • Implement a strong identity foundation
  • Maintain traceability
  • Apply security at all layers
  • Automate security best practices
  • Protect data in transit and at rest
  • Keep people away from data
  • Prepare for security events
• Reliability: Recover from failures and meet demand
  • Automatically recover from failure
  • Test recovery procedures
  • Scale horizontally to increase aggregate workload availability
  • Stop guessing capacity
  • Manage change through automation
• Performance efficiency: Use resources efficiently as demand and technology change
  • Democratize advanced technologies
  • Go global in minutes
  • Use serverless architectures
  • Experiment more often
  • Consider mechanical sympathy
• Cost optimization: Deliver business value at the lowest price point
  • Implement cloud financial management
  • Adopt a consumption model
  • Measure overall efficiency
  • Stop spending money on undifferentiated heavy lifting
  • Analyze and attribute expenditure
• Sustainability: Reduce the environmental impact of cloud workloads
  • Understand your impact
  • Establish sustainability goals
  • Maximize utilization
  • Anticipate and adopt new, more efficient hardware and software
  • Use managed services
  • Reduce the downstream impact of your cloud workloads
• Lenses: Extend the framework with workload and industry guidance
  • Generative AI Lens
  • Machine Learning Lens
  • Serverless Applications Lens
  • SaaS Lens
  • Data Analytics Lens
  • IoT Lens
  • Container Build Lens
  • DevOps Lens
• AWS Well-Architected Tool: Review workloads against the pillars and track improvement plans