- Now let's talk about the Well-Architected Framework.
The Well-Architected Framework is a
collection of five white papers.
And these white papers provide best practice guidance
on building systems within AWS.
And this best practice is essentially collected
from the experience of not just
AWS but also from the experience of running
Amazon.com on AWS.
It's also pooled from large Amazon customers
such as Netflix.
Customers that are doing really complex things
at really large scales.
And so these
white papers are sort of broken
into five pillars.
And those five pillars are reliability,
showing us how to build systems that are reliable
and resilient and reliability talks about
high availability and fault tolerance,
different features, different options
that we can use and different techniques that we can use
to achieve and build a reliable system.
We also have performance efficiency.
And performance efficiency is not just about
using the greatest most powerful EC2 instance all the time.
It's about the efficient use of computing
and how to maintain that efficiency as
our needs change and as the demand on our systems change.
And so it's about using the right tool for the right job.
And then we have security.
Of course security shows us how to leverage things
like different accounts and how to ensure that
we're using the right credentials for the right reasons.
And it talks about networks security and different ways
that we can create a secure environment within AWS.
We also have cost optimization which goes into
very similar performance, it's about using the right
tools for the right job.
Not every application needs to run on you know let's say
a M5 16 extra large right?
Some applications may run perfectly fine on a T3 small.
And so it's about using the right size instance,
the right sized volumes, it's about using cost optimization,
tools like we talked about earlier to identify areas
where we can save money.
And then lastly we have the fifth pillar
is operational excellence.
Operational excellence is all about the business
processes that we use to implement those four other pillars.
Operational excellence is about ensuring that we are
using the right tool and that we are leveraging AutoNation
as much as possible.
So remember what I have mentioned earlier,
that the only way to truly realize all of the power
and benefit of AWS is through AutoNation.
And so the operational excellence pillars talks to that,
talks to the business policies and business processes
that allow you to take the most advantage
of all that Amazon has to offer.
So I would highly encourage you to take a look at the
Well-Architected Framework, it's available here at
the URL on your screen and if you are wanting to go on
beyond just the basics, beyond the fundamentals
and really get into understanding design thinking,
then the well-architected framework can really help.
And if you want to go on and achieve the solutions architect
associate certification then the well-architected
framework actually forms the basis of the exam.
So the well-architected framework by studying that,
you will be studying for the solutions architect exam.
And if you want to take that route I would also
highly encourage you to take a look at my video,
the solutions architect associate complete video course
and we follow the well-architected framework module
by module, really diving in to each of one these
five pillars and exploring a number of concepts
as they relate to building and architecting and designing
services for AWS.