AWS Architecture Blog
Category: AWS Well-Architected
Accelerating Well-Architected Framework reviews using integrated AWS Trusted Advisor insights
In this blog, we will explain how the new AWS Well-Architected integration with AWS Trusted Advisor can give you insights to accelerate your cloud optimization. Customers that have the most success in their cloud adoption recognize that optimizing their cloud architecture and operations is not a one-time effort. Optimization is a continuous improvement virtuous cycle […]
Optimize your modern data architecture for sustainability: Part 1 – data ingestion and data lake
The modern data architecture on AWS focuses on integrating a data lake and purpose-built data services to efficiently build analytics workloads, which provide speed and agility at scale. Using the right service for the right purpose not only provides performance gains, but facilitates the right utilization of resources. Review Modern Data Analytics Reference Architecture on […]
Verify the resilience of your workloads using Chaos Engineering
The following is an early preview of new guidance to be published as part of updates to the AWS Well-Architected content: Chaos Engineering enables us to find shortcomings before our customers find them and therefore, provides us with the opportunity to create a better customer experience. Chaos Engineering does not introduce chaos into your systems, […]
Announcing updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework
We are excited to announce the availability of improved AWS Well-Architected Framework content. In this update, we have made changes across all six pillars of the framework: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. A brief history The Well-Architected Framework is a collection of best practices that allow customers to evaluate and […]
Chaos Engineering in the cloud
For many years, Chaos Engineering was viewed as a mechanism to help surface the “known-unknowns” (things that we are aware of, but do not fully understand) in our environments or “unknown-unknowns” (things we are neither aware of, nor fully understand). Using Chaos Engineering, chaos experiments have been conducted on infrastructure, applications, and business processes that […]
How Facteus improved Quantamatics performance by adopting Amazon Aurora Serverless and Amazon EKS
Facteus Inc. is a leading provider of actionable insights from sensitive transaction data. Facteus safely transforms raw financial transaction data from legacy technologies into actionable information, without compromising data privacy, through its innovative synthetic data process. Quantamatics is one of Facteus’ core product offering. Quantamatics accelerates the time it takes a user to go from […]
Let’s Architect! Designing Well-Architected systems
Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels says, “Everything fails, all the time”. This means we should design with failure in mind and assume that something unpredictable could happen. The AWS Well-Architected Framework is designed to help you prepare your workload for failure. It describes key concepts, design principles, and architectural best practices for designing and running workloads […]
Implementing the AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens lifecycle in your organization
In this blog post, we present a lifecycle that helps you build, validate, and improve your own AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens, in order to roll it out across your whole organization. The AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens is a new feature of the AWS Well-Architected Tool that lets you bring your own best practices to complement the existing […]
Use templated answers to perform Well-Architected reviews at scale
For larger customers, performing AWS Well-Architected (AWS WA) Framework reviews often involves a combination of different teams. Coordinating participants from each team in order to perform a review increases the time taken and is expensive. In a large organization, there are often hundreds of AWS accounts where teams can store review documents, which means there […]
Architecting for sustainability: a re:Invent 2021 recap
At AWS re:Invent 2021, we announced the AWS Well-Architected Sustainability Pillar, which marks sustainability as a key pillar of building workloads to best deliver on business need. In session ARC325 – Architecting for Sustainability, Adrian Cockcroft, Steffen Grunwald, and Drew Engelson (Director of Engineering at Starbucks) gave a detailed explanation of what to expect from the […]