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What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

PLUS: Why you need to learn about it.

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Lucy Wang
September 02, 2023

In Today’s Cloudbites:

📃 Understanding the AWS Well-Architected Framework

🛠 Six Pillars to Building Resilient Architectures

👩‍💻 How to Get Started with it

Read time: 3 minutes

Hi friends, welcome back to Cloudbites. Today, we're diving into something that could completely change the way you build things in the cloud - the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

📃 Understanding the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Imagine this: You’re a Cloud Architect, and your company's servers are hit with a massive surge of traffic. Customer complaints start coming in, and the pressure is on. Thankfully, you manage to fix the servers - but how do you prevent this from happening again?

This is where the AWS Well-Architected Framework comes in:

Without proper planning, companies can easily get blindsided by sudden changes. The result? System crashes, unhappy customers, and damage to reputation. 🙁

✅ Understanding and applying this framework can help you avoid common pitfalls, decrease risk, and ensure your applications are well-architected.

❌ It's not just a list of do's and don'ts but a blueprint for building scalable, resilient, and secure applications in the cloud.

🛠 Six Pillars to Building Resilient Architectures

The framework is built around six main pillars:

  1. Security: Protecting data, systems, and assets.

  2. Cost Optimization: Avoiding unnecessary costs and making long-term cost-effective decisions.

  3. Performance Efficiency: Using computing resources efficiently.

  4. Sustainability: Minimising environmental impacts.

  5. Reliability: Recovering from disruptions and meeting demand.

  6. Operational Excellence: Running and monitoring systems to deliver value and improve over time.

These pillars are more than buzzwords. Each one focuses on a specific component that contributes to a well-architected cloud setup.

👩‍💻 How to Get Started with it

To get started, check out the AWS Well-Architected landing page. It's a great resource for developers, solutions architects, and anyone working with cloud infrastructure. It's also very user-friendly and completely free.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading! 😊

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