Are you well architected?

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Are You Well Architected?
Mario Li
Solutions Architect
22 Jul 2019

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Am I doing it right?

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• Increases awareness of architectural best practices
• Addresses foundational areas that are often neglected
• Consistent methodology for evaluating architectures
The AWS Well-Architected Framework

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The AWS Well-Architected Framework
Pillars Design Principles Questions

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Design Principles of Well-Architected Framework
Stop guessing
capacity needs
Test systems at
scale
Data-driven
architectures
Automate to enable
experimentation
Allow for
evolution

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Design Principles
The Well-Architected Framework has identified a set of design principles
to facilitate good design in the cloud
Pillar-
Specific
Design
Principles
General
Design
Principles
e.g.
Stop guessing your capacity needs
e.g. (Reliability)
Manage change in automation

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Security Reliability Performance
Efficiency
Cost
Optimization
Operational
Excellence
Pillars of AWS Well-Architected

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Operational Excellence (OE)
The ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value
and continually improve supporting processes and procedures
• Prepare
• Operate
• Evolve

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Pillar Area
Question Text
Question Context
Best Practices
Question: Operational Excellence

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Security
The ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering
business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
• Identity and access management
• Detective controls
• Infrastructure protection
• Data protection
• Incident response

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Pillar Area
Question Text
Question Context
Best Practices
Question: Security

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The ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service
failures, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand,
and mitigate disruptions such as misconfigurations or transient
network issues
• Foundations
• Change management
• Failure management
Reliability

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Pillar Area
Question Text
Question Context
Best Practices
Question: Reliability

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Performance Efficiency (PE)
The ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system
requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes
and technologies evolve
• Selection
• Review
• Monitoring
• Tradeoffs

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Pillar Area
Question Text
Question Context
Best Practices
Question: Performance Efficiency

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Cost Optimization (CO)
The ability to avoid or eliminate unneeded cost or suboptimal resources
• Cost-effective resources
• Matched supply and demand
• Expenditure awareness
• Optimizing over time

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Pillar Area
Question Text
Question Context
Best Practices
Question: Cost Optimization

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Value Proposition
Help Customers:
• Consistent approach to reviewing architectures
• Understand and reduce risk in your architecture
• Learn best practices
• Influence future architectures
• Generate additional opportunities

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Available Resources
• AWS Well-Architected Tool
• AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper
• Pillar-specific whitepapers
• Prescriptive high-level implementation guidance
• Lens whitepapers
• Free online training (AWS Solutions Training for Partners:
Well-Architected Best Practice)

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The AWS Well-Architected Tool

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The AWS Well-Architected Tool
Pillar Area
Question Text
Question Context
Your Answers

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Appendix - AWS Certifications

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