The document is a presentation on the AWS Well-Architected Framework given by Bob Yeh, an AWS Solutions Architect. It introduces the five pillars of the Well-Architected Framework - operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization. For each pillar, it provides definitions and examples of design principles and best practices to consider to help ensure architectures are well-architected on AWS.

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Bob Yeh
Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
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Well Architected on AWS

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• Audience: Developers, Architect, IT Director, CIO
• Services covered: 30+ different services
• Rough level of the content: 200
• Abstract: Introduction to Well Architected Framework,
pillars, and relevant services.
• Author: Bob Yeh (bobyeh@amazon.com)

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Speaker Contact
Solutions Architect
bobyeh@amazon.com
Bob Yeh

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You want to build a restaurant….
What am I going to prepare?
What should I do to run it?
How to make my it successful?
How to make my customer happy?
How …….?
Well-Architected Environment/System

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5 20 50+Pillars Definitions Detail items
AWS Well Architected

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AWS Well-Architected Framework

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

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Operational Excellence
Security
Reliability
Performance Efficiency
Cost Optimization
5 Pillars in AWS Well-Architected Framework

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Operational Excellence
SecurityReliability
Performance EfficiencyCost Optimization
5 Pillars in AWS Well-Architected Framework

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Operation Excellence

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Prepare, Operate, Evolve

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Operation Excellence
• What are you going to do?
 Prepare
• Is it going well?
Operate
• How to do it better tomorrow?
Evolve

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Operational Excellence
Prepare
Operate
Evolve
-Operational priorities
-Design for operations
-Operational readiness
-Understanding operational Health
-Responding to Events
-Learning from Experience
-Sharing learning

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Security

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Security

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Security
• Who is the boss?
 Identity & Access Management
• Is everything on track?
Detective Control
• I better make everything secure, right?
Infrastructure Protection
Data Protection
• Then, how should I do if anything goes wrong?
Incident response

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Security
Identity & Access Management
Detective Control
Data Protection
Infrastructure Protection
Incident response
-Protecting AWS credentials
-Fine-grained authorization
- Capture and Analyze Logs
- Integrate Auditing Controls with
Notification and Workflow
-network and host-level boundaries
- OS security config and maintenance
- service-level protection

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Security
Identity & Access Management
Detective Control
Data Protection
Infrastructure Protection
Incident response
- Data Classification
-Encryption/tokenization
-Protecting data at rest
-Protecting data in transit
-Data backup/replication/recovery
-Clean Room

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Reliability

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Reliability

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Reliability
• What bring my service down first?
Foundation - Networking
• Which “service level” I want to provide?
Understand Availability Needs
• I should have plan-B for each part…
Application Design for High Availability
• Run it without breaking it
Operational Consideration for Availability

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Reliability
Foundation - Networking
Understand Availability Needs
Application Design for Availability
Operational Consideration for Availability
-Spare space
-Redundancy
-Topology
-Service limit
-Fault Isolation Zones
-Redundant Component
-Micro-service
-Recovery Oriented
-Distributed systems
-Automation
-Testing
-Monitoring & Alert
-Review & Audit

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Performance efficiency

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Performance efficiency
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Performance Efficiency
• Which one is better?
Selection
• Seriously?
Review
• Okay, let’s see the number…
Monitoring
• Any Pros and Cons?
Trade-off

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Performance Efficiency
Selection
Review
Monitoring
Trade-offs
-Compute
-Storage
-Database
-Network
-Infrastructure as code
-Deployment pipeline
-Well-defined metrics
-benchmark
-Load Testing
-Active Monitor
-Passive
-Analytics
-External/Internal
-Cache
-Partitioning
-Sharding
-Compression
-Buffering

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Cost Optimization

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Cost Optimization
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Cost Optimization
• Which one is better?
Cost effective
• Seriously?
Match Supply and Demand
• Okay, let’s see the number…
Expenditure Awareness
• Any Pros and Cons?
Optimizing over time

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Cost Optimization
Cost effective
Match Supply and Demand
Expenditure Awareness
Optimizing over time
- Appropriate Provisioning
- Right Sizing
- Purchase Option
- GEO selection
- Managed Services
- Measure, Monitor, and Improve
- Stay ever green
- Control
- Cost Attribution
- Tagging
- Entity Life Cycle
-Demand-Based
-Time-Based
-Buffer-Based

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Now, are your “Well-Architected”?

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