Ilana Morris and Samir Kopal from the Well-Architected team discuss the history and benefits of AWS Well-Architected. They explore using the tool as a mechanism and highlight the latest features including the Consolidated Report, integration with Service Catalog AppRegistry, and Profiles. They also cover the importance of Well-Architected reviews, continuous improvement, and options for conducting reviews.
The Well-Architected framework includes operational excellence, sustainability, and provides a standard way to measure and improve workload health.
The Well-Architected tool helps teams document architectural decisions, track progress, prioritize risks, and integrate with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
Deep dives
The History and Evolution of AWS Well-Architected
The Well-Architected framework was born from an outage in 2012 and has since evolved to include operational excellence and sustainability. It provides a standard way to learn, measure, and improve workload health. The framework has recently added sustainability as an important topic. AWS Well-Architected is now a service in the management console, allowing users to answer questions and improve workload health across their organization.
How Well-Architected Improves Cloud Architecture
Well-Architected is a continuous improvement mechanism that encourages teams to have conversations about how they architect their services and applications in the cloud. The Well-Architected tool helps teams document architectural decisions, track progress over time, and identify improvements using milestones. It also helps prioritize risks and provides a way to run game days for better preparedness during incidents.
Using Well-Architected to Improve Processes and Workload Health
Implementing Well-Architected as a mechanism involves educating teams about its value, starting with strategic workloads, and then scaling it out across the organization. It helps organizations improve their processes by documenting architectural decisions, avoiding recurring mistakes, and addressing risks. The tool also integrates with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices. Well-Architected supports customization with custom lenses that allow organizations to apply their own set of architectural best practices.
In this episode, Hawn sits down with Ilana Morris and Samir Kopal from the Well-Architected team to discuss a brief history of AWS Well-Architected. They dive into how to use the AWS Well-Architected Tool as a mechanism and the latest Well-Architected features including Consolidated Report, the integration with Service Catalog AppRegistry, and Profiles.
AWS Well-Architected Tool website: https://go.aws/3OQZJy3
AWS Well-Architected Tool Documentation: https://go.aws/3s61eRd
AWS Well-Architected Labs: https://bit.ly/3Ovrqw6
AWS Well-Architected Partner Program: https://go.aws/47mLrO1
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