Are you Well-Architected? AWS Immersion Day
A safeINIT-hosted AWS Immersion Day on the Well-Architected Framework and how to apply it to real production workloads.
About this talk
A framework for evaluating production AWS workloads
AWS's Well-Architected Framework is the structured way to evaluate cloud workloads against six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. This Immersion Day walks through each pillar with the questions an architect should be asking when designing or reviewing a workload.
The session is grounded in production examples and the kinds of gaps safeINIT finds when running formal Well-Architected Reviews for clients. The goal is a working mental model, not a textbook walk-through.
Key takeaways
A working framework for assessing your own AWS workloads.
The six pillars
- Operational excellence: how operations support business outcomes
- Security: protect data, identity, and infrastructure
- Reliability: recover from failures and meet demand
- Performance efficiency: use resources to match changing demand
- Cost optimization: avoid unneeded cost
- Sustainability: minimize environmental impact
Applying it in practice
- When to run a formal Well-Architected Review
- How to use the AWS Well-Architected Tool
- Common high-risk gaps in production workloads
- Building review cadence into engineering process
Bring this kind of work to your AWS environment.
If something here lined up with what you're building, the next step is a working call with the team that delivered it.