EKS (K8s) Well-Architected Review- Healthcare Lens

By leveraging the healthcare industry lens of the EKS well-architected framework will help you adopt a cloud-native approach to build and operate healthcare workloads. Successive Digital Well-Architected Review for EKS helps you comply with security and privacy norms like HIPAA, HITECH, and HITRUST to ensure your K8s platform meets all the regulated laws. Using the HIPAA account, you can run your EKS workload and process, store and transmit protected health information (PHI) in the HIPAA-eligible services. Our AWS K8s Well-Architected Framework is based on the six pillars:

1. Operational Excellence – Optimize operations and monitoring systems for EKS clusters and the associated CI/CD processes.
2. Performance Efficiency – Streamline allocation of IT and computing resources for workload requirements, monitoring performance, and maintaining efficiency.
3. Cost Optimization – Leverage cost reduction strategies and reduce unnecessary costs in your EKS estate. Select the resources of the right type and quantity.
4. Security – Protect health data, systems, and assets that are reliant on EKS. Meet regulatory requirements and take control of user permissions and access rules to detect security events.
5. Reliability – Run EKS workload in a highly available and resilient IT environment by adopting distributed system design, recovery planning, and adapting to changing requirements.
6. Sustainability - Maximize utilization of resources and minimize the environmental impacts on the cloud workloads.

Our holistic approach follows three stages to ensure the robustness of your Kubernetes infrastructure through a well-architected framework:

• Assessment- During a one-hour introductory call, our AWS experts will comprehensively evaluate your existing K8s healthcare workload using the six pillars of the Well-Architected Framework.
• Well-Architected Review- This involves a detailed 2-3 hour workshop where we collaborate with your key stakeholders. Our proficient EKS specialists define the necessary EKS technical practices and configurations that align with your business requirements.
• Insightful Reports and Recommendations- This report serves as a roadmap for addressing high-risk (red) issues. We provide a set of recommended strategies, including implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and EKS provisioning pipelines such as control plane services such as security, scaling, RBAC, DNS, and more.