AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Author: Stephen Salim
Stephen Salim is currently a Senior AWS Well-Architected GEO Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He has worked at AWS since 2013 in multiple roles. As part of the AWS Well-Architected team, Stephen’s focus is to work with AWS customers and AWS Partner Network (APN) partners of all sizes to help them build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications. You can follow Stephen on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stepsalim/.
Track your workload’s risks with the new AWS Well-Architected Tool Connector for Jira
The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a collection of best practices that helps customers build and operate secure, high-performing, resilient, and cost-effective workloads on the AWS Cloud. With the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool), you can review the state of your applications and workloads against architectural best practices, identify opportunities for improvement, and track progress […]
Build a Cloud Automation Practice for Operational Excellence: Best Practices from AWS Managed Services
Introduction In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations are actively pursuing operational excellence to maintain a competitive edge. Automation is a critical foundation for achieving better efficiency, reliability, and scalability in operations. However, integrating automation into cloud practice entails more than simply implementing software or tools. Building a cloud automation practice requires a transformative journey that […]
Prioritize business-critical needs with the Profiles feature in the AWS Well-Architected Tool
The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a collection of design principles, concepts, and best practices that helps cloud architects build and operate secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for a variety of applications and workloads. Using the Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR), organizations can measure their cloud workloads against the AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices to help […]
Achieving Operational Excellence using automated playbook and runbook
An important aspect of operational readiness is having a well-defined process to perform activities in your workload for various scenarios as indicated in Question 7 of Operational Excellence pillar in AWS Well-Architected Framework. Which aims at evaluating your workload’s readiness for operation, from process and personnel perspective. In the case of Incident response, a team […]