AWS Well-Architected Framework (AWS Whitepaper)

Successful evolution of operations is founded in: frequent small improvements; providing safe environments and time to experiment, develop, and test improvements; and environments in which learning from failures is encouraged.

Automate to make architectural experimentation easier:

Stop guessing your capacity needs:

Tradeoffs can increase the complexity of your architecture and require load testing to ensure that a measurable benefit is obtained.

Allow for evolutionary architectures:

Improve through game days:

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS.

Share lessons learned across teams to share the benefits of those lessons. Analyze trends within lessons learned and perform cross-team retrospective analysis of operations metrics to identify opportunities and methods for improvement. Implement changes intended to bring about improvement and evaluate the results to determine success.

Your recovery processes should be as well exercised as your normal production processes.

Test systems at production scale: