The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you understand the pros and cons of decisions you make while building systems on AWS. By using the Framework you will learn architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud. It provides a way for you to consistently measure your architectures against best practices and identify areas for improvement. The process for reviewing an architecture is a constructive conversation about architectural decisions, and is not an audit mechanism. AWS believes that having well-architected systems greatly increases the likelihood of business success.
AWS Solutions Architects have years of experience architecting solutions across a wide variety of business verticals and use cases. AWS has helped design and review thousands of customers’ architectures on AWS. From this experience, they have identified best practices and core strategies for architecting systems in the cloud.
The AWS Well-Architected Framework documents a set of foundational questions that allow you to understand if a specific architecture aligns well with cloud best practices. The framework provides a consistent approach to evaluating systems against the qualities you expect from modern cloud-based systems, and the remediation that would be required to achieve those qualities. As AWS continues to evolve, and they continue to learn more from working with our customers, they will continue to refine the definition of well-architected.
This framework is intended for those in technology roles, such as chief technology officers (CTOs), architects, developers, and operations team members. It describes AWS best practices and strategies to use when designing and operating a cloud workload, and provides links to further implementation details and architectural patterns. For more information, see the AWS Well-Architected homepage.
AWS also provides a service for reviewing your workloads at no charge. The AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool) is a service in the cloud that provides a consistent process for you to review and measure your architecture using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The AWS WA Tool provides recommendations for making your workloads more reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective.
To help you apply best practices, Technology Spa has adopted this framework and has successfully built custom Standard Operating Procecudures (SOP) for architecting, implementing, and operating workloads in AWS for each of its customers and led adoption of these best practices with great success. Contact Technology Spa today to learn how capability has helped other customers and how it can help your business.
