AWS Well-Architected Framework provides best practices and guidance for architecting a solution in the cloud.
The five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
| Name | Description |
| Operational Excellence | The ability to support development and run workloads effectively, gain insight into their operations, and to continuously improve supporting processes and procedures to deliver business value. |
| Security | The security pillar encompasses the ability to protect data, systems, and assets to take advantage of cloud technologies to improve your security. |
| Reliability | The reliability pillar encompasses the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it’s expected to. This includes the ability to operate and test the workload through its total lifecycle. This paper provides in-depth, best practice guidance for implementing reliable workloads on AWS. |
| Performance Efficiency | The ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve. |
| Cost Optimization | The ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point. |