10.1 Introduction of Well Architected Framework

What is a well architected framework

This has been developed by the Solutions Architecture team based on their experience with helping AWS customers. The well architected framework is a set of questions that you can use to evaluate how well your architecture is aligned to AWS best practices.

5 Pillars of the Well Architected Framework (SCROP)

• Security

• Reliability

• Performance Efficiency

• Cost Optimisation

• Operational Excellence

Structure of each pillar

• Design principles

• Definition

• Best Practices

• Key AWS Services

• Resources

General Design Principles

• Stop guessing your capacity needs. With the cloud, you can scale it automatically to meet the demands.

• Test systems at production scale.

• Automate to make architectural experimentation easier.

• Allow for evolutionary architectures.

• Data-driven architectures.

• Improve through game days (e.g. Black Friday).