Amazon Well-Architected Framework

The Amazon Well-Architected Framework is a proven guide that helps you to find not only functioning, but outstanding Cloud architectures design. At 35x, we use this framework as a quality benchmark to ensure that your cloud environment is optimally designed. The framework consists of six pillars that represent fundamental principles for excellent cloud architectures.

The six pillars of the Well-Architected Framework

Each pillar of the framework addresses a critical success factor for your cloud environment. Here are the six pillars in detail:

Operational Excellence

- Efficient operating processes and automation:
  We define your infrastructure as code (IaC) to make deployments reproducible, consistent and automated. Automation of recurring tasks such as deployments, tests and monitoring increases the efficiency and productivity of your team.
- Comprehensive monitoring and logging:
  Implementation of seamless monitoring of your systems with cloud-native monitoring solutions to detect problems at an early stage and identify performance bottlenecks.

Security

- - Strong identity and access management (IAM):
    Implementation of a robust IAM system that precisely controls access to your cloud resources. Multi-factor authentication and least privilege are standard.
  - Data protection and encryption:
    Protection of your data both at rest and in transit through comprehensive encryption.

Reliability

- Reliability and redundancy:
  Design your architectures from the ground up to be fail-safe with redundancy, availability zones and auto scaling.
- Backup and disaster recovery:
  Implementation of detailed backup and recovery strategies as well as disaster recovery plans.

Performance optimization

- Intelligent resource selection:
  Selection of the optimum compute, storage and network resources for your workloads.
- Performance monitoring and analysis:
  Monitoring the performance of your applications in real time and carrying out regular load and performance tests.

Cost optimization

- Cost transparency and monitoring:
  Create maximum transparency about your cloud costs with cost management tools.
- Resource right-sizing:
  Continuous optimization of the size and configuration of your cloud resources.

Sustainability

- Energy efficiency and resource conservation:
  Use of energy-efficient hardware and services and optimization of resource utilization.
- Holistic approach:
  Integration of sustainability aspects in all areas of cloud architecture.

Cross-platform application of the framework

The Well-Architected Framework was developed by AWS, but the principles are universal. At 35x, we apply this framework across all platforms - regardless of whether you are using AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack or a hybrid cloud. We adapt the specific implementation to the respective cloud platforms.

Operational Excellence: Use of Azure Monitor and Google Cloud Operations Suite analogous to AWS CloudWatch.
Security: Use of Azure Security Center and Google Cloud Security Command Center.
Reliability: Integration of Azure Site Recovery and Google Cloud Backup and DR.
Performance optimization: Use of Azure Advisor and Google Cloud Recommender.
Cost optimization: Use of Azure Cost Management and Google Cloud Billing.

The Amazon Well-Architected Framework is a proven guide for excellent cloud architectures. With 35x as your partner, you can be sure that your cloud environment is optimally designed regardless of the platform - secure, reliable, high-performance, cost-efficient and sustainable.

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