Aligning your architecture with the six focus pillars of the framework
The AWS Well-Architected Framework categorizes all practices under six main pillars, which are Cost Optimization, Reliability, Operational Excellence, Performance Efficiency, Sustainability, and—most importantly—Security. Let’s start with Operational Excellence, which focuses on best practices for operating your workloads at scale and evolving them over time to ensure a great customer experience.
Operating your workloads with confidence
The Operational Excellence pillar aims to optimize the delivery cycle of new features and bug fixes in customer environments, in a reliable and repeatable manner. Developers can only focus on building new capabilities when they are not frequently pulled into operational issues that distract them. To ensure this, Operational Excellence promotes the idea of automating changes and responses to events, continuously monitoring running systems, and improving...
