Summary

In this chapter, we delved into the fundamental principles and significance of AWS Well-Architected, which serves as a comprehensive guide for designing and operating reliable, performant, cost-effective, secure, and sustainable cloud systems.

We started with a discussion of different components of AWS Well-Architected—the framework, the lenses, and the Well-Architected Tool. An important takeaway from all these learnings is that it is an evolving concept. The cloud provider will keep on extending the framework and the suggestions under each of the pillars as the cloud capabilities evolve and by looking at how different customers use these capabilities to solve their unique business problems. The lenses additionally provide focused attention on a particular business or technical domain that customer workloads map to. Documenting workload evaluations and learnings based on Well-Architected suggestions is an important activity that is fulfilled by the use of the Well...