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 Well-Architected Framework whitepaper is the primary source behind all of it. First published in 2015 and updated regularly since, it formalised what AWS Solutions Architects were doing in customer workload reviews into a consistent, documented system. Every revision to the pillars - including the addition of sustainability in 2021 - and the full question set in the Well-Architected Tool originate here. If you work with the framework seriously, this is the document to read. The six pillars The pillars are the core of the framework. Each defines a set of design principles and best practices. AWS lists them in this order consistently across the whitepaper, documentation, and the Well-Architected Tool. ...