AWS Well-Architected Framework (AWS Whitepaper)

Rather than having your IT team learn how to host and run a new technology, they can simply consume it as a service.

Tradeoffs can increase the complexity of your architecture and require load testing to ensure that a measurable benefit is obtained.

Successful evolution of operations is founded in: frequent small improvements; providing safe environments and time to experiment, develop, and test improvements; and environments in which learning from failures is encouraged.

Improve through game days:

Allow for evolutionary architectures:

Stop guessing your capacity needs:

Share lessons learned across teams to share the benefits of those lessons. Analyze trends within lessons learned and perform cross-team retrospective analysis of operations metrics to identify opportunities and methods for improvement. Implement changes intended to bring about improvement and evaluate the results to determine success.

Drive architectures using data:

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS.