Are you Well-Architected?

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We describe how to use the Well-Architected Framework to evaluate the technology solutions built by your teams. The AWS Well-Architected Framework describes best practices across five pillars (Security, Reliability, Performance, Operational Excellence, and Cost), and provides a consistent approach to review architectures against those best practices. This review process shows where your architectures can be improved, and helps you address weakness that may put your business at risk

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Are you Well-Architected?
Fitz (Philip Fitzsimons), lead AWS Well-Architected

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When you look at the system
your team is building, can you
answer the question:
“Are you well-architected?”

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•Are you well-architected?
Performance CostSecurity Reliability Operations

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

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A Mechanism for your Cloud Journey
Learn Measure Improve

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Agenda for “Are you Well-Architected?”
•Are you well-architected?
•Does this matter?
•History
•The Framework
•Applying it

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Why does this matter?

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Why does this matter?
Negative IT news trends
• Hacks
• System Failures
• Performance too slow
• Budget over-runs

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Why does this matter?
Impact on product development
• Cost of defects, “prevention is better than cure”
• Fire fighting distracts us from value creation
• Can’t make decisions taking into account risk

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Where we would like to be
• We know what's in our technology portfolio
• We understand the risk is each workload
• One view across security, reliability, performance etc
• We continue to know that as workloads change
• We raise the bar for our future workloads
• We can make informed decisions

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A little bit of history..

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2014
2016
2015
2017
2018
2013
2012Well-Architected started
AWS SA reviews
Questions across 4 pillars
Published Framework
Operational Excellence
APN Partners, Lens
Improvement plans
History AWS Well-Architected

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AWS Well-Architected Framework

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What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
Pillars Design Principles Questions

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

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Pillar-Specific
Design Principles
General Design
Principles
Design Principles

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General Design Principles
Stop guessing your capacity needs
Test systems at production scale
Automate to make architectural experimentation easier
Allow for evolutionary architectures
Drive architectures using data
Improve through game days

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Pillar Area
Question Text
Question Context
Best Practices
Questions

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Applying Well-Architected to your workloads

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Resources
AWS Well-Architected
Framework Whitepaper
Pillar Specific
Whitepapers, Lens
Free Online Training
November 2018
November 2018

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Reviews
Your team
Technical & Business leads
AWS
Solutions Architect
AWS APN
Partner
+ ( )or

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Well-Architected Partners

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Intent of review
Not Architecture Astronauts
Pragmatic, proven adviceWorking together to improve
Not an audit
Throughout lifecycle
Not a one-time check

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Learnings
Make bad decisions?
Not considered decisionsEarlier is better
Pre-launch only?
Most workloads
have some issues
Quality is high?

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