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5 pillars

Security

  • protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value
  • utilising risk assessments and mitigation strategies

Reliability

  • ability to recover from infrastructure or service failures
  • dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand
  • mitigate disruptions such as misconfigurations or transient network issues

Performance Efficiency

  • use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements
  • to maintain efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve

Cost Optimization

  • the ability to avoid or eliminate unneeded cost or suboptimal resources

Operational Excellence

  • the ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value
  • to continually improve supporting processes and procedures

General design principles

  • stop guessing capacity needs
  • test systems at production scale
  • lower the risk of architecture change
  • automate to make architecture experimentation easier
  • allow for evolutionary architectures

Well-architected questions/answers/best practices

See Appendix in AWS Well-architected Framework whitepaper

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