The AWS Well-Architected Framework
As a solutions architect, you may have questions about architecture optimization for reliability, scaling, high availability, performance, and security even before getting started with various AWS services. You may ask how the AWS cloud will accommodate those needs and compare it with your existing on-premise architecture practice.
AWS built the Well-Architected Framework to address those needs. The Well-Architected Framework provides customers with access to AWS’s Well-Architected content. This content is based on extensive architectural reviews with clients, helping to identify and mitigate potential architectural risks while promoting best practices.
AWS also created the WAR to help customers have better outcomes when building architectures on AWS. You can understand the areas of your architecture that could be improved, which in turn helps you address areas you have been firefighting and that distract from adding value. As you go through the review process, you can learn about new capabilities to add value to your application and drive better outcomes to build and operate workloads on the cloud. With this, you can get the following benefits:
- Learn strategies and best practices for architecting in the cloud
- Measure your architecture against best practices
- Improve your architecture by addressing any issues
AWS has six Well-Architected pillars covering the breadth and depth of architecture along with the WAR to validate them. Let’s learn more about it.