Let’s Architect! Designing Well-Architected systems

This article discusses the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which provides best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud.

Specifically, the article covers:

• An overview of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its six pillars (security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, operational excellence, and sustainability)
• Updates to the security pillar, including a new best practice area on application security
• The Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Lens, which provides guidance for integrating IT systems during M&A scenarios
• The AWS Well-Architected Labs, a set of hands-on workshops to learn the Framework's best practices
• The use of formal methods, such as the P programming language, for modeling and analyzing distributed systems