AWS Well-Architected Framework
AWS Tutorial: The AWS Well-Architected Framework
Welcome to the Well-Architected Framework lesson. AWS provides a massive toolbox, but it is entirely up to you to assemble the pieces correctly. AWS created this framework to guide you.
Why Learn the Well-Architected Framework?
If you want to be a Cloud Solutions Architect, this framework is your holy bible. It is heavily tested on every single AWS certification exam because it teaches you how to build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure.
Tutorial Overview
In this tutorial, you will learn the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
The 6 Pillars
- Operational Excellence: The ability to support development and run workloads effectively, gain insight into their operations, and continuously improve processes to deliver business value. (Focus: Automation and monitoring).
- Security: The ability to protect data, systems, and assets. (Focus: IAM, encryption, least privilege).
- Reliability: The ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it's expected to. (Focus: Multi-AZ deployments, Auto Scaling, disaster recovery).
- Performance Efficiency: The ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements. (Focus: Selecting the right EC2 instance types, Serverless).
- Cost Optimization: The ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point. (Focus: Spot Instances, turning off idle servers).
- Sustainability: The ability to continually improve sustainability impacts by maximizing resource utilization and reducing energy consumption.
Exercise
?Deploying your application across multiple Availability Zones to ensure it survives a data center failure aligns with which pillar of the Well-Architected Framework?