"When dealing with cloud vendors: trust, but verify."
- Russian proverb
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the largest cloud service providers in the world, leading the charts with about 32.3% of market share according to a report from Canalys. According to AWS, five foundational pillars together form the AWS Well-Architected framework. These pillars are important to discuss as they are universal principles that can and should be included in any operational setup. They are as follows:
- Operational excellence: Focuses on the capability to operationalize and monitor infrastructure in order to deliver business services
- Security: Focuses on the capability required for protecting business assets such as information and systems via risk modeling, assessment, and implementation of mitigation strategies
- Reliability: Focuses on the ability of a system to recover from a cyber disruption by acquiring computing resources and mitigating the loss of service
- Performance...