So You Want to be Well-Architected? The AWS Well-Architected Framework enables customers to understand best practices around security, reliability, performance, and cost optimisation when building systems on AWS. This approach helps customers make informed decisions and weigh the pros and cons of application design patterns for the cloud. In this session, you'll learn about the Well-Architected Framework, and the steps you can take to help ensure your solution is Well Architected. Ben Hunter, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

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Ben Hunter
Enterprise Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
So You Want to be Well-Architected?

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“Are you Well-
Architected?”
Werner Vogels

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What Is The AWS Well-Architected Framework?
Pillars Design Principles Questions

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Why Would I Want To Apply The AWS
Well-Architected Framework?
Build and
deploy faster
Lower or
mitigate risks
Make informed
decisions
Learn AWS
best practices

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A Mechanism For Your Cloud Journey
Learn Measure Improve

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Pillars Of AWS Well-Architected
Operational
Excellence Security Reliability
Performance
Efficiency
Cost
Optimisation

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Customer Benefits of AWS Well-Architected
Think Cloud-Natively Consistent Approach to
Reviewing Architecture
Understand
Potential Impact Visibility of Risks

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AWS Well-Architected Framework Whitepapers
AWS Well Architected
Framework
November 2017
AWS Well-Architected Framework Whitepaper
• Operational Excellence Pillar Whitepaper
• Security Pillar Whitepaper
• Reliability Pillar Whitepaper
• Performance Efficiency Pillar Whitepaper
• Cost Optimisation Pillar Whitepaper
http://aws.amazon.com/well-architected

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Pillar Area
Question Text
Question Context
Best Practices
Pillar Question Structure

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Pillar
Specific
Design
Principles
General
Design
Principles
Design Principles
Automate responses to security events: Monitor and automatically
trigger responses to event-driven, or condition-driven, alerts.

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General Design Principles
Stop guessing capacity needs
Test systems at production scale
Automate to make architectural experimentation easier
Allow for evolutionary architectures
Drive your architecture using data
Improve through Game Days

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Pillars of AWS Well-Architected
Operational
Excellence Security Reliability
Performance
Efficiency
Cost
Optimisation

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Operational Excellence
Operate
Prepare
Evolve

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Operational Excellence - Design Principles
Perform Operations with Code
Annotated Documentation
Make Frequent, Small, Reversible Changes
Refine Operations Procedures Frequently
Anticipate Failure
Learn From All Operational Failures

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Operations as Code

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Pillars of AWS Well-Architected
Operational
Excellence Security Reliability
Performance
Efficiency
Cost
Optimisation

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Security
Identity
Infrastructure protection
Detective controls
Data protection
Incident response

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Security - Design Principles
Implement a strong identity foundation
Enable traceability
Automate security best practices
Protect data in transit and rest
Prepare for security events
Apply security at all layers

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Ubiquitous Encryption

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Pillars of AWS Well-Architected
Operational
Excellence Security Reliability
Performance
Efficiency
Cost
Optimisation

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Reliability
Change management
Failure management
Foundations

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Reliability - Design Principles
Test recovery procedures
Automatically recover from failure
Scale horizontally to improve availability
Stop guessing capacity
Manage change through automation

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Availability – 99%

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Availability 99.9%

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Availability – 99.99%

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Availability - 99.999% Multi-region

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Pillars of AWS Well-Architected
Operational
Excellence Security Reliability
Performance
Efficiency
Cost
Optimisation

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Performance Efficiency
Selection
Monitoring
Review
Tradeoffs

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Performance Efficiency - Design Principles
Democratise advanced technologies
Go global in minutes
Use serverless architectures
Experiment more often
Mechanical sympathy

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Amazon
DynamoDB
Lambda
function
Amazon Kinesis
Stream
Amazon
RDS
SQS
EC2
Instances

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Pillars of AWS Well-Architected
Operational
Excellence Security Reliability
Performance
Efficiency
Cost
Optimisation

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Cost Optimisation
Matched supply and demand
Cost effective resources
Expenditure awareness
Optimising over time

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Cost Optimisation - Design Principles
Adopt a consumption model
Benefit from economies of scale
Stop spending money on data center operations
Analyse and attribute expenditure
Drive your architecture using data
Use managed services to reduce cost of ownership

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What is the cost of each service?
What is the cost per hour?
Tagging is critical
What resources did project = IronMan use?
How much did department = Accounts spend?
Display the costs publically in real time!
Understand Your Costs

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Your Journey To Well-Architected

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Summary: Purpose of Well-Architected
• Strategies & best practices for architecting in the cloud
• Questions allow you to measure your architecture against best
practices and provide clarity on where to focus next
• Making informed decisions about architecture in the cloud
• Questions are the starting point
• Not a binary “yes” or “no”
• Consistency of reviews
• Ongoing process

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Your Journey to Well-Architected
https://aws.amazon.com/well-architected
AWS Well-Architected
Framework Whitepaper
Pillar Specific
Whitepapers
Free Online Training

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