Category: AWS Well-Architected

The cloud has become integral to modern businesses, providing unprecedented scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. Learn how AWS Partners TD SYNNEX and CoreStack worked together to introduce an innovative solution based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework and CoreStack’s AI-powered NextGen cloud governance and FinOps capabilities to help customers optimize their cloud costs and improve overall cloud operations.

Snowflake aspires to be a leader in environmental sustainability, and its goal is to provide the best data cloud with the lowest carbon footprint on the planet. Learn how Snowflake reduced its carbon emissions footprint and improved performance efficiency by transitioning virtual warehouses to AWS Graviton-based instance types. This enabled Snowflake to reduce the carbon intensity of workloads, so it can meet customer demand sustainably even as compute requirements continue to grow.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps organizations design, build, and operate systems on AWS cloud environments. Wipro is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner that has helped multiple SAP customers running their SAP applications on AWS to achieve agility, innovation at high speed, and improved resilience. This post highlights best practices and learnings from Well-Architected Framework Reviews conducted by Wipro using the SAP Lens.

SMBs with limited resources are often challenged with time and resource constraints to perform AWS Well-Architected Reviews on a regular basis. CloudCheckr CMx gives you the visibility and intelligence you need to lower costs, maintain security and compliance, and optimize resources in single or multi-cloud infrastructure. CloudCheckr’s Well-Architected Readiness Advisor report leverages the AWS Well-Architected Tool to map CloudCheckr’s best practice checks to the 6 pillars of AWS Well-Architected.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework defines six pillars of cloud best-practices, and automation has matured to the point where it’s ready to support customers’ growing sophistication and appetite for efficiency. Learn how 6pillars’ dedication to automation-first and integration with AWS-native tools enables customers to deploy automation of AWS best practices quickly, safely, and cost-effectively. This drives significant benefits to customers seeking to adhere to multiple compliance standards.

The Cost Optimization Pillar of the SaaS Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework emphasizes the need for expenditure awareness by measuring tenant consumption and correlating it to tenant costs. This can prove challenging in SaaS solutions, where resources are shared across tenants. Learn how to leverage CloudZero to gain visibility into tenant consumption, and how you can gain insights into tenant cost using CloudZero’s Enhanced Unit Cost Analytics.

Customers building on AWS can benefit from specific alignment to either their architecture or an industry vertical via lenses which are included within the AWS Well-Architected Tool and include questions applicable to that particular workload. Learn how findings from the Serverless Application Lens can be automated using Dashbird Insights to show misconfigurations and best practice violations in relation to serverless workloads. This post walks through the deployment of an example serverless application that we’ll profile using Dashbird Insights.

As customers continue to accelerate business transformation by moving to the cloud, the need for a more self-reliant and integrated cloud governance framework with enhanced security and compliance, cost management, and reporting and analytics, is on the rise. Learn how Infinity Ensure can help enterprises optimize cloud governance with continuous monitoring and tracking, and get recommendations to keep up with cloud innovations.

An AWS Well-Architected Review is the optimal way to measure your architecture against AWS best practices and to improve your architecture by addressing critical issues. Learn how the nOps cloud management platform allows customers and consulting partners to have a more accurate view of AWS service configurations in alignment with the Well-Architected Framework. We’ll also explore how nOps enables more prescriptive and real-time insights to continuously improve the architecture over time.

The AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) helps identify and mitigate technical risks in solutions built by AWS ISV Partners. The FTR focuses on a subset of AWS Well-Architected best practices and defines objective criteria for each requirement. In October 2021, we updated the FTR process for Partner Hosted solutions to make it faster, easier, and more accurate than before. In this post, learn how the updated FTR process works, benefits of the new process, and how you can get started.