3.3 Investigating your Architecture on AWS

3.3.1 AWS Well-Architected Framework

The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a structured way to evaluate and improve cloud architectures. It is organized around six key pillars:

  • Operational Excellence - developing and running workloads effectively, with an emphasis on monitoring and continuous improvement
  • Security - leveraging cloud technologies to protect data, systems, and assets
  • Reliability - designing for reliability, planning for failure, and adapting to change
  • Performance Efficiency - taking a data-driven approach to building high-performance architectures and evaluating whether compute resources meet system requirements
  • Cost Optimization - delivering maximum business value at the lowest price point
  • Sustainability - minimizing the environmental impact of cloud workloads
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