Adhering to AWS Well-Architected Principles

Back in 2012, one of the famous Amazon Web Services (AWS) services—Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)—had an outage that affected the workloads of many customers. Interestingly, though, the impact was negligible, or not seen at all by a few customers. This clearly meant that in addition to the capabilities provided by the cloud provider, the usage pattern of those services played an important role in the stability of customers’ workloads. Deeper investigations surfaced some architectural patterns that a few AWS customers had been following. This, combined with the data and analysis from AWS, led to the formation of AWS Well-Architected. Since then, this has been used to educate customers on how to architect their cloud workloads in a reliable and efficient manner. What started as a set of best practices then transformed into some whitepapers and architectural guides for hosting applications on AWS. These practices will...