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Well Architected Partner Program
Design, review, and optimize cloud workloads with our Well-Architected Partner Program services, ensuring security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
AWS Well-Architected Framework
The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a collection of AWS’s proven and well-established best practices, structured around six core pillars.
Operational Excellence
The Operational Excellence pillar emphasizes the ability to run, monitor, and continuously improve systems to deliver consistent business value. It focuses on automating changes, effectively responding to events, and establishing clear standards and processes for day-to-day operations.
Security
The Security pillar focuses on protecting data, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk management. It covers key areas such as data confidentiality and integrity, identity and access management, system protection, and the detection and response to security events.
Reliability
The Reliability pillar focuses on ensuring that workloads perform their intended functions correctly and consistently when required. It emphasizes resilient distributed system design, effective recovery and fault tolerance planning, and controlled change management to maintain continuous availability.
Performance Efficiency
The Performance Efficiency pillar focuses on using computing and IT resources efficiently to meet system requirements. It emphasizes selecting the right resource types for workload needs, continuous performance monitoring, and maintaining optimal system efficiency as demands evolve.
Cost Optimization
The Cost Optimization pillar focuses on understanding and controlling cloud expenditure while maximizing business value. It emphasizes selecting the right resource types and sizes, analyzing and monitoring costs over time, and scaling workloads efficiently without unnecessary overspending.
Sustainability
The Sustainability pillar focuses on minimizing the environmental impact of running cloud workloads. It emphasizes a shared responsibility model for sustainability, understanding and measuring environmental impact, and maximizing resource utilization to reduce the overall footprint.
AWS Well-Architected Lenses
AWS Well-Architected lenses extend the core guidance of the AWS Well-Architected Framework by providing tailored best practices for specific industries, workloads, and technology domains.
Are You Well-Architected?
Although this question is straightforward, it is important to understand all the key aspects of the solution in order to answer it accurately.
Operational Excellence
- How do you identify and prioritize operational requirements?
- How do you reduce and mitigate deployment risks?
- How do you determine readiness to support a workload in production?
- How do you monitor and understand the health of your workload?
- How do you assess and improve the health of your operational processes?
Security
- How do you securely operate and manage your workload?
- How do you detect, respond to, and investigate security events?
- How do you protect compute, network, and infrastructure resources?
- How do you classify data based on sensitivity and compliance needs?
- How do you protect data at rest?
- How do you protect data in transit?
Reliability
- How do you manage service quotas, limits, and constraints?
- How do you design and plan your network topology?
- How do you architect workloads for resilience and availability?
- How do you backup and restore critical data?
- How do you use fault isolation to limit the impact of failures?
- How do you plan and test disaster recovery (DR) strategies?
Performance Efficiency
- How do you select the most effective and performant architecture?
- How do you choose the right compute services?
- How do you select appropriate storage solutions?
- How do you choose the right database technologies?
- How do you design and configure your networking solution?
- How do you apply trade-offs to optimize performance?
Cost Optimization
- How do you implement effective cloud financial management?
- How do you govern and control resource usage?
- How do you monitor usage patterns and costs?
- How do you identify and decommission unused or underutilized resources?
- How do you evaluate cost considerations when selecting services?
- How do you leverage pricing models to reduce overall costs?
Sustainability
- How do you select AWS Regions aligned with your sustainability goals?
- How do you use user behavior patterns to optimize resource consumption?
- How do you apply software and architectural patterns to reduce environmental impact?
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