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Guidance for Downstream Connected Field Work on AWS

Overview

This Guidance provides real-time visibility into field-critical workflows that help field personnel complete job tasks accurately, safely, and efficiently. In the energy manufacturing industry, the management of both daily field activities and planned maintenance outages are critical for maintaining reliable operations. Every manufacturing site needs access to timely information to help ensure field safety, business profitability, and operational excellence. This Guidance provides a way for field workers to visualize, consume, collect, and collaborate on operational data, as part of daily rounds, maintenance, construction, inspection, and turnaround workloads.

How it works

These technical details feature an architecture diagram to illustrate how to effectively use this solution. The architecture diagram shows the key components and their interactions, providing an overview of the architecture's structure and functionality step-by-step.

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Well-Architected Pillars

The architecture diagram above is an example of a Solution created with Well-Architected best practices in mind. To be fully Well-Architected, you should follow as many Well-Architected best practices as possible.

Amazon CloudWatch automatically captures activity, logs, and metrics for AWS services, including Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, Lambda, and Amazon API Gateway. You can use this logged data to understand near real-time health of data integration and validate data quality. Having a centralized repository for logs provides a simple way to create operational dashboards that monitor the Guidance from end-to-end. 

Additionally, as revised patterns and best practices using AWS IoT Core evolve for the energy industry, we will incorporate these updates into the Guidance. 

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This Guidance employs AWS IAM Identity Center to provide authentication through a centralized directory with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and policies controlling authorization for the directory.

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You can combine built-in CloudWatch logs with Amazon SNS notifications to monitor key performance and reliability system indicators. Administrators are notified through email or SMS text message when metrics fall outside defined operating ranges.

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To support performance efficiency, you should launch end-user facing resources, such as QuickSight, in an AWS Region that will allow for low latency to end users. You can implement any of the services in this Guidance in a multi-Region architecture where appropriate. 

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Core services in this Guidance, including Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Lambda, and Athena, are serverless and can scale on demand while providing consumption-based pricing.

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By using serverless, consumption-based services, such as Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Athena, API Gateway, Amazon SNS, and QuickSight, you can promote utilization of shared resources in the AWS Cloud. This reduces the need to maintain your own on-premises servers, helping you optimize energy consumption.

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