AWS Well-Architected Framework - Series Overview
The Well-Architected Framework is one of the more useful things to have internalised for serious AWS work. It comes up in architecture trade-off discussions, CDK design decisions, cost justifications, security reviews - not as a formal checklist but as a consistent vocabulary for reasoning through decisions. I started writing notes to keep the structure clear and they grew into this series. The framework is AWS’s documented approach to evaluating cloud workloads against a set of architectural best practices. It is structured around six pillars, supported by a tool for running formal reviews against your own workloads, and extended by Lenses that apply the same thinking to specific domains like serverless or SaaS. This series works through each component. ...