Describing the AWS Well-Architected Framework
In 2015, AWS launched a framework for guiding developers through the process of making good design decisions when building on AWS. The AWS Well-Architected Framework codifies the best practices for defining, deploying, and operating workloads on the AWS cloud. It exists as a whitepaper of best practices and a web-based tool to approach a solution evaluation as a checklist of considerations and suggested mitigation strategies. This expertise aims to serve AWS customers but is delivered in a format that is generally useful for evaluating any kind of digital workload. We will use this framework to retroactively review this book's solution of the Home Base Solutions appliance monitoring product.
The Well-Architected Framework organizes best practices into five pillars. A pillar is a section of the framework that aggregates design principles and guiding questions to resolve under a common purpose. The five pillars are as follows:
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