This aws wellarchitected webinar for startups,
we're going to talk about options to runthe review and,
start your wellarchitected journey
Today will start withan introduction,
1 – What is Well
Acrhitected Framwork and how to use it?
2 – Typical Lifecycle.
3 – Review choices.
4 – Benefits of leaveraging AWS Wa consulting partners
5 – Call to Action.
1 – What is Well Acrhitected Framwork and how to
use it?
so let's start with a brief overview of the well architected framework the well
architected framework is a collection of best practices.
gathered from years of experience of solutions architects
that's aws and develop to help you build secure high-performing resilient
efficient application infrastructure in the cloud.
This frame provides a harmonious approach for guests and mates
to estimate infrastructures.
it has been used in tens of thousands of reviews conducted
by the aws solutions architecture
platoon and provides guidance to help apply designs that
gauge.
with application needs over time
well architected framework is made up offive pillars each
one,
has questions and best practices to support your workloads the
five pillars are,
1 – Operational Excellence
2 – Security
3 – Reliability
4 – Performance
efficiency and
5 – Cost optimization
so when you incorporate these pillars it'll help you produce
stable and effective systems.
allowing you to focus on functional requirements,
once done the well architected tool provides you with a plan
to architect for the cloud using established best practices,
what's in it for you as a startup
yes you want to grow fast but you also want to grow fine as
your service is
new it's critical to have a great user experience with
websites,
showing quickly snappy mobile applications or anything your service,
is able to do for your users at the right level of
performance.
and as you grow it's important to limit downtime to a strict
minimum as user base may be fragile.
your customers trust you with their data you have the
responsibility to keep it safe,
as part of the shared responsibility model trusts bringsbusiness.
And last but not least if your business happens to be
successful and,
Finally gets the attention you are looking for will you
handle the load through best practices provided by the well architected tool
you can achieveall these goals and keep innovating
so the well architected tool is a free service available
directly in the aws console .
you can start using it now at no extra cost.
you can find it in the search bar just like any other aws
service,
define your work load & ans a set of Q.
we recommend that you review the five pillars
but if a pillar makes more sense to you now.
don't hesitate to focus on it first you can always come back
to it later to review more pillars.
Each question will touch on the best practices and you will
be asked if you implemented them.
Most workloads can be improved and it's very likely that you
won't check all the boxes.
if you have implemented some of it but have a feeling that
improvements can be made don't check the box.
a goal is to have a honest overview and help you gain insights
for the future.
based on these questions the well architected tool provides
you with a plan for remediations that you can implement at your own pace.
2 – Typical Lifecycle.
Typical life cycle starts with a review
this is where you answer questions about best practices and
benchmark your workload.
this will give you the list of actionable items we talked
about,
you'll prioritize these items with your own set of
requirements.
making sure the specific needs of your business are addressed
first ,
for example your
Customers may ask you about the security implemented in your
infrastructure and,
may have specific requirements this is probably what you
should put at the top of your action plan.
once plan is prioritized you can start working on
implementation yourself or with the help of an aws certified partner.
3 – Revies Choices.
let's review the options you have in details.
the process can be fully self-service.
You can do everything at your own pace you can also get
support from an aws solutions architect.
Reach out to your account team and get a review organized.
This will help you go deeper into these recommendations and
get a good grasp.
On why they matter to your specific context an aws solutions
architect can also help you prioritize your plan of action.
Another option is to get the help of one of our certified
consulting partners
our partners are specifically trained to deliver these
sessions and
they have an extended knowledge on the best practices of the
well-architected program
they can
also have on prioritization and
implementation
so let's recap the options we have here
so you can do everything yourself,
inside the tool from the console explore the recommendation
answer the question probably tell us what you want to do first and finally
implement.
You can also get the help of an aws solutions architect for
the review and prioritization.
During these sessions an aws solutions architects go through
each question with you and discuss every item.
This is a good time for you to learn about how other aws
customers implement these best practices in their own environments.
An aws solutions architect can share with you pointers to
documentation blog posts or aws samples to get you started.
next you can click of the implementation phase in this case
your team will be responsible for the execution of the plan.
4 – Benefits of leaveraging AWS Wa consulting
partners
so what are the benefits of leveraging an aws well
architected partner.
Partners sit down with you to review the questions and deep
dive into your infrastructure.
this makes sure best practices are evaluated in the context of
your business with your constraints in mind.
and partners bring a fresh eye sharing their experience of
other reviews theyconducted.
partners can help you implement the remediations as well
it's very likely that your team is already busy with atight roadmap.
And probably do not have yet the required skill set to
implement the remediation.
Extra hands experience with aws can help you keep the
roadmap commitments you made and deliver on the needed improvement at the same
time.
Also well-architected partners working on your workload have
access to a potential funding of five thousand dollars which can cover the implementation
of the first improvements at no cost for you.
some conditions apply qualifying workloads are production
workloads.
this may also cover environments needed to push to
production such as development or qa environments,
review needs to be run by a well-architected partner and you
will be asked to complete a survey.
also in 2022 a minimum of 45 percent of high risk issues
found during the review needs to be fixed.
Once done credits are sent to you directly with six months
expiration.
program is available once per workload still if you have
multiple production workloads you may be eligible for each of them.
so now that you know the benefits of leveraging an aws
partner where can you find the right partner for you.
head to partnerfinder.amazonaws.com and,
then look for partner program well architected you'll find a
list of partners you can filter by location and industry or vertical.
so what's next reach out to our certified partners to plan a review also don't hesitate
to ask for guidance to your account team,
your solutions architect is here to help.
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