Personal Intros -
Uturn is one of the few Chicago based AWS partners, who are approved to conduct Well-Architected Review
High level topics to cover today:
1. What is the Well-Architected Framework
2. Why Live Well-Architected
3. How to Live Well-Architected including Well Architected Reviews
Create Short Summary
Improving Business Outcomes
Emphasize
Why do we break down into 5 pillars?
Operational Excellence – CI/CD, GameDays, Infrastructure as Code
Security – Security/Monitoring/Logging, Identity and Key Manangement, Encryption
Reliability – Multi-AZ, Auto-Scaling, Service Limits
Performance – Right AWS Services, Resource Utilization, Planning/Benchmarking
Cost – RI/Spot, Resource Utilization, Decommissioning
Key message: It’s all about give and take, and finding balance
AWS White Paper was first released XXXXXXXX
- Customer oriented checklist
AWS SAs started conducting reviews for important customer workloads in the cloud
- How do review work
In 2017 AWS started training AWS Partners in the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Today there is only 100 approves partners, who can conduct AWS Well-Architected Reviews, in the world. Uturn is one of those Partners in the Chicago Area.
WE WILL TOUCH ON WELL ARCHITECTED REVIEWS IN A COUPLE MINUTES
By completing reviews on a semi-regular basis, you can compare your architecture to a sensible baseline and call for further action as needed.
Develop an internal process to review new services announcements and enhancements and disseminate to your teams
Automate, automate, automate!
Consider game days to validate your designs, make it fun!
Well Architected Partners can offer $5K on AWS Usage Credits to offset the cost of Remediation. If you are interested, see Adam and Chad for more details.