The AWS Well-Architected Framework

The Well-Architected Framework helps you understand the pros and cons of decisions you make while building systems on AWS or Azure. As with most of this course, we will be using AWS as the service provider.

By using the Framework, you will learn architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud. It provides a way for you to consistently measure your architectures against best practices and identify areas for improvement. We believe that having well-architected systems greatly increases the likelihood of business success.

As solutions architects, my team and I have years of experience architecting solutions across a wide variety of business verticals and use cases. We have helped design and architect architectures for 70+ customers on AWS, Azure, and a few on Oracle. From this experience, we have identified best practices and core strategies for architecting cloud systems.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework documents a set of foundational questions that help you determine whether a specific architecture aligns with cloud best practices.

The framework provides a consistent approach to evaluating systems against the qualities you expect from ...