AWS Well-Architected Framework

Five pillars:

Operational excellence

• running and monitoring systems to help optimize and deliver value to the business

Security

• manage and secure your infrastructure by protecting your data by focusing on confidentiality, data integrity, access management, and other security controls, while ensuring risk assessment and mitigation are built into your solutions

Reliability

• maintain the stability of your environment and recover from outages and failures

Performance efficiency

• ensuring you have the correctly specified resources to efficiently meet the demands of your customers by monitoring performance and adapting your infrastructure

Cost optimization

• reduce your cloud costs by understanding where it’s possible to optimize your spending through a variety of means