AWS Well-Architected Reviews
Six Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Six Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
The AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications. Based on six pillars, the framework provides a consistent approach for evaluating architectures, and implementing designs that will scale over time. AWS best practice recommends that architecture reviews be performed every 3-6 months as part of your standard operations to ensure you are taking advantage of the new features and services AWS is constantly releasing.
Operational Excellence
Key areas include managing and automating changes, responding to events, and defining standards.
Security
Key topics include confidentiality and integrity of data, identifying and managing who can do what, protecting systems, and establishing controls to detect security events.
Performance Efficiency
We focus on selecting the right resource types and sizes based on workload requirements, monitoring performance, and making informed decisions to maintain efficiency.
Reliability
Key topics include distributed system design, recovery planning, and adapting to changing requirements.
Sustainability
Key topics include a shared responsibility model, understanding impact, and maximizing utilization to minimize required resources.
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AWS Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR) FAQs
- Get in touch: First, you'll meet with one of our expert AWS cloud engineers to discuss your objectives and set the scope of the review needed.
- Assessment: Our team evaluates your current architecture's alignment with AWS best practices. Our comprehensive assessment encourages deep dives into all aspects of the architecture.
- Analysis & Reporting: We collect and analyze the data to identify the risks that matter most to your business and that can be addressed via remediation. Results are compiled and categorized by impact and urgency, providing a clear view of risks across all assessed workloads.
- Presentation: Our team presents findings to you and other stakeholders in a constructive discussion. This presentation aims to foster understanding and support for the architectural recommendations.
- Remediation: Based on the report’s prioritization and agreed upon next steps, we plan and implement remediation actions. We address the most critical issues first, setting clear timelines and responsibilities for resolving each identified problem
Our review process ensures your AWS architecture meets the highest standards, offering you peace of mind and a clear path to cloud optimization.
The Well-Architected Framework (WAF) is a guide designed to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications, providing best practices for system evaluation and improvement.
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An Well-Architected Review (WAR) is an assessment process to evaluate systems against the framework's best practices, identifying potential improvements in cloud architectures.
The Well-Architected (WA) Tool is a free service available in the AWS Console that helps users define workloads, conduct an architectural review, and apply best practices. Through a series of guided questions, users provide answers that enable the tool to automatically identify potential issues. For each issue detected, the tool then provides detailed remediation steps. It's worth noting that the AWS WA Tool is region-specific, which means you need to conduct separate reviews for workloads in different regions.
While some teams choose to utilize the AWS WA Tool to conduct a review on their own, Stratus10's AWS experts stand ready to support businesses who want to validate and optimize their infrastructure with a Well-Architected Review. With Stratus10, a review is free and includes $5,000 towards remediation of issues detected.
The framework is structured around six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.
The framework comprises the Well-Architected Tool, the Well-Architected Review, and foundational questions that guide the evaluation of architectures. Each component revolves around the six core pillar of well-architected. For example, types of foundational questions asked include:
- Are operational procedures clearly defined and known by all members of the team? (Operational Excellence pillar)
- How do you manage credentials and authentication? (Security pillar)
- How are you managing service limits for AWS products? (Reliability pillar)
- How do you select the best performing architecture? (Performance Efficiency pillar)
- How do you optimize costs? (Cost Optimization pillar)
- How do you optimize the use of resources? (Sustainability pillar)
The Operational Excellence pillar advocates for maintaining infrastructure as code to automate and systematize resource management.
It was developed to assist cloud architects in constructing the most secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications.
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