AWS Well-Architected Framework
Did you know that the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR) has been specifically designed to ensure that your AWS environment is cost-optimised, efficient, and secure? By participating in a WAFR (Well-Architected Framework Review), you can find and eliminate any elements of your cloud architecture that don’t measure up to best practices.
It is important to note that the WAFR is more than a simple audit. It will reveal an actionable list of improvements and recommendations that you can take to get your environment to where it should be.
Outcomes of the Well-Architected Framework Review
Our goal is to give you the roadmap to take to upgrade your architecture. During your WAFR, our team of certified cloud experts will assess and review your existing infrastructure.
All you need to do is answer a series of questions about your workload, and we’ll deliver an action plan. What could be easier?
The Well-Architected Framework is based on six pillars of excellence.
Operational Excellence
The operational excellence pillar focuses delivering business value and continually improving processes and procedures.
Key topics include:
- Managing and automating changes
- Responding to events
- Defining standards to successfully manage daily operations.
Security
The security pillar focuses on protecting information and systems.
Key topics include:
- Confidentiality and integrity of data
- Identifying and managing who can do what with privilege management
- Protecting systems
- Establishing controls to detect security events
Reliability
The reliability pillar focuses on the ability to prevent, and quickly recover from failures to meet business and customer demand.
Key topics include:
- Foundational elements around setup
- Cross-project requirements
- Recovery planning
- How we handle change
Performance Efficiency
The performance efficiency pillar focuses on using IT and computing resources efficiently.
Key topics include:
- Selecting the right resource types and sizes based on workload requirements
- Monitoring performance
- Making informed decisions to maintain efficiency as business needs evolve
Cost Optimisation
The cost optimisation pillar focuses on avoiding unnecessary costs.
Key topics include:
- Understanding and controlling where money is being spent
- Selecting the most appropriate and right number of resource types
- Analyzing spend over time
- Scaling to meet business needs without overspending
Sustainability
The sustainability pillar focuses on addressing the long-term environmental, economic, and societal impact of your business activities.
Key topics include:
- Understanding your impact
- Establishing sustainability goals
- Maximising utilisation
- Anticipating and adopting new, more efficient hardware and software offerings
- Using managed services
- Reducing the downstream impact of your cloud workloads
About Silicon Overdrive
As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with a Well-Architected certification, Silicon Overdrive is positioned to evaluate your existing cloud environment against the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
The AWS Well-Architected Framework has been developed to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications.
Are you certain that your AWS environment has been built to best-practices? If there is any doubt, book your Well-Architected Framework Review and get some peace of mind.
