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    If you're new to AWS, or just want to brush up on best practices, start with these resources.

    AWS Well-Architected

    AWS Well-Architected provides a framework to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient architectures.
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    Establishing Your Cloud Foundation on AWS

    This guided path approach helps you build and evolve your AWS Cloud environment based on a consolidated set of definitions, scenarios, guidance, and automations.
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    Establishing Your Cloud Foundation on AWS - Beyond Your Landing Zone

    Overview of AWS

    Explore this helpful resource outlining every AWS service at-hand to help you pick the right service for your architecture.
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    An Introduction to AWS

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    Announcing Updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework Guidance

    We are excited to announce the availability of improved AWS Well-Architected Framework guidance. In this release, we have made the implementation guidance for the new and updated best practices more prescriptive, including enhanced recommendations and steps on reusable architecture patterns targeting specific business outcomes in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

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    Let’s Architect! Leveraging SQL databases on AWS

    In this post, we introduce caching strategies and continue with real case studies that use services like Amazon ElastiCache or Amazon MemoryDB in real workloads where customers share the reasoning behind their approaches. It’s very important to understand the context for leveraging a specific solution or pattern, and these resources answer many commonly asked questions.

    The ML-based telemetry analytics solution architecture

    Automating Multi-AZ High Availability for WebLogic Administration Server

    In this blog post, we share some practices for protecting your workloads from the most common attacks, introduce the Zero Trust principle (you can learn how AWS itself is implementing it!), plus how to move to containers and/or alternative approaches for managing your secrets.

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  • Cloud Resilience

    Learn how to keep your system running during times of disruption or stress with these resources.

    Reliability Pillar - AWS Well-Architected Framework

    The reliability pillar focuses on workloads performing their intended functions and how to recover quickly from failure to meet demands.
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    Designing for Reliability with AWS Well-Architected

    Building Resilient Well-Architected Workloads Using AWS Resilience Hub

    Learn how to use AWS Resilience Hub to assess and improve the resilience of your architecture based on its actionable recommendations.
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    Introduction to AWS Resilience Hub

    Resilience Lifecycle Framework: A Continuous Approach to Resilience Improvement

    The resilience lifecycle framework outlines five key stages containing resilience learnings and best practices that you can use to improve your resilience posture.
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    Incorporating Continuous Resilience in Your Development Ecosystem

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