Category: AWS Well-Architected

AWS Resilience Hub is an AWS service designed to help you define, track, and manage the resilience of your applications. This service helps you understand and improve the resilience of your workloads using AWS Well-Architected best practices, and offers both resilience and operational recommendations to enable you, the customer, to consistently meet your organizational and workload-based requirements […]

In previous blog posts, we discussed the first two phases for running a Well-Architected Framework Review, or WAFR. The first phase is to Prepare and the second phase in to conduct the Review. In this blog post, we dive deep into the third phase: Improve. Figure-1 WAFR Phases What is the Improve phase? At this […]

There are three phases to conduct a successful Well-Architected Framework Review or WAFR: Prepare, Review and Improve. In part 1 of this blog series, we discussed the preparation phase. In this part, we will dive deep into the best practices of the second phase, the actual review. Figure-1 WAFR Phases Assuming you follow the recommendations […]

Is my workload well-architected? Is my team following cloud best practices? How do other customers implement solution X? What is the best way to configure service Y? These are examples of questions I usually get from my customers who want to validate if their architecture is aligned with AWS best practices. The answers to these […]

Introduction Ensuring resilience, the ability for a system to recover from a failure induced by load, attacks, and other issues, is a shared responsibility that underpins the reliability of your workloads. While AWS provides the resilient underlying cloud infrastructure, customers are tasked with maintaining the resilience of their applications. In this landscape of joint responsibility, […]

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 […]

AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews help you improve your workload‘s architecture by identifying risks that require attention across the six pillars of the framework. However, after identifying the risks in your architecture, you need to prioritize them and create an improvement strategy to address them. Using Consolidated Report, a new feature added recently to AWS Well-Architected […]

Are you looking for ways to optimize your costs on AWS? Are you ensuring that you are taking advantage of all the cost-saving features and services that AWS offers? If not, you should be! In this blog post, we will discuss how to use AWS Well-Architected  and AWS Trusted Advisor to achieve data-driven insights that […]

In this blog post, learn how to scale out an operational readiness review (ORR) in your organization by using the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool) and its Custom Lens capability. The AWS WA Tool ‘Custom Lens’ feature was launched in Nov 2021 and makes it a single place for you to review and measure best practices across your […]

Historically, customers had to choose between security and costs when establishing RDP connections to Windows servers. The newest feature in Fleet Manager provides customers with a simple and secure browser-based method for accessing Windows servers over RDP. Now you can connect to your instances directly from the browser from the AWS Management Console in just […]