2019-05-01 Wednesday - AWS Well Architectured Framework

"The Well-Architected Framework has been developed to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications. Based on five pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization — the Framework provides a consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures, and implement designs that will scale over time."

For my fellow CTOs and Enterprise Architects - who may be pondering how to move their organizations to an Agile Architecture model (and the attendant challenges of fulfilling the responsibilities for governance and oversight) - I encourage you to read this well written document - but, in particular, pay close attention to page-3, under the section entitled "On Architecture"

• AWS Well-Architected Framework, November 2018

Additional resources:

• https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/

• https://github.com/awslabs/aws-well-architected-labs

• https://aws.amazon.com/well-architected-tool/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/userguide/intro.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/userguide/wellarchitected-ug.pdf