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Is Your Infrastructure Well-Architected?
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Are you getting the most from your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment?
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How does your architecture stack up to industry best practices?
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Is your architecture helping you achieve your desired business and technical outcomes, all while optimizing costs?
A well-architected infrastructure can drive better business outcomes like reducing costs or security and compliance risk, improving the reliability of your core systems for better customer experiences, and much more. AWS solutions architects have identified best practices for architecting systems in the cloud based on their many years of experience designing and reviewing thousands of customers’ architectures on AWS across virtually all business verticals and use cases. The result is the AWS Well-Architected Framework, based on six pillars.
Why Do a Well-Architected Framework Review
1. Mergers & Acquisitions
Your organization inherits existing applications, and you want to know what the level of technical debt is in the cloud configuration.
2. Pre-Launch
You’re about to go live with a new critical application, and you’d like a fresh set of eyes to confirm you’re ready.
3. Bill Shock
You received a bill that was higher than expected for a given workload and would like to know what to do to optimize this.
4. Security Incident
You’d rather get your security news privately rather than on the front page of the New York Times tomorrow morning.
5. Annual Analysis
Best practice changes over time, especially as the cloud capability itself continually improves, and you’d like to have some measure of the rate of improvement from year to year (or every 3 to 6 months).
6. Existing Service Team Validation
Check that your existing team or service provider adequately maintains your application and AWS cloud environment.
AWS Well-Architected Framework Pillars
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Operational Excellence
Running and monitoring systems to deliver business value
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Performance Efficiency
Using IT and computing resources efficiently
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Reliability
Meeting customer demand by preventing and quickly recovering from failures
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Sustainability
Minimizing the environmental impact of running cloud workloads
Steps That We Take to Achieve a Well-Architected Cloud Environment
​​AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFRs) use the AWS Well-Architected Framework to provide a consistent approach to evaluating and remediating systems based on best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, operationally excellent, cost-optimized, and sustainable systems for the cloud.
Bringdev experts assess your critical workload running on AWS based on the six Well-Architected Framework pillars, identify high-risk issues (HRIs), and provide you with actionable recommendations to remediate issues and close gaps fast, using services like AWS CloudFormation.
While the scope of the WAFR often starts with a focus on a high-priority workload, our experience is that a broader discussion happens. The WAFR evolves into precisely the discussion we want to have with our customers: how modern infrastructure on AWS will give you an advantage in the marketplace, like a better customer experience, faster idea to cash, or scalability.
The Role of MontyCloud Day2™ in
AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews
​We use the MontyCloud DAY2™ platform. It’s purpose-built for the AWS Well-Architected Framework to do the following:​​​​
- Accelerate and automate the discovery of the target workload’s noncompliance with AWS's Well-Architected best practices
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Improve the accuracy of a WAFR
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Help you identify potential cost savings of up to 30% or more
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Quickly locate high-risk security loopholes—lack of MFA, resources in public subnets, etc.
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Enable you to design for better performance and reliability to support your growing business
Benefits of AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews for Enterprise Architecture
In our experience, the majority of organizations participating in a Well-Architected Framework Review proceed with recommended remediations. That should tell you the value of the review.
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Get solutions to pressing issues and a prioritized roadmap of remediation goals to provide immediate, quantifiable improvements for cost, security, reliability, operational excellence, and performance efficiency.
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Keep current with the awesome volume and velocity of new AWS services, some of which may address your issues immediately, like cost.
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Have a broad discussion with your key business and IT stakeholders on how modern infrastructure can give you an advantage in the marketplace—like better customer experience, faster idea to cash, scalability, and more.
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Address areas of security and compliance risk before they cause problems.
How the Review Works
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Set a date and time for the review and select a priority workload.
Assume two hours for the review, based on the amount of prework you complete.
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Attend the review.
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The review can be performed remotely.​​
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Perform deep-dive on a critical workload.​​
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Audit operations for compliance with the six AWS Well-Architected pillars.​​
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Perform assessments via Q&A and automation.​​
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Surface some immediate cost savings by revealing sub-optimized or underutilized resources.
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Invite attendees to the review.
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A cross-section of your internal stakeholders (think IT and business)​​
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A member of your team who is involved in the design/provisioning of your infrastructure​​
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The Bringdev team, including an AWS-certified solutions architect
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Follow up the review.
Bringdev provides​
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recommendations based on business implications of your workload design decisions, and​​
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a prioritized roadmap of short-, medium-, and long-term goals, based on the core Framework pillars.
Why Bringdev?
Cost-Effective Options
Bringdev offers cost-effective solutions for businesses of varying sizes, catering to both small establishments and large corporations.
Robust Alliance
At Bringdev, we cultivate robust collaborations by dedicating ourselves to comprehending the intricacies of your enterprise, including its obstacles and objectives. This approach enables us to convert your challenges into original and forward-thinking resolutions effectively.
Dedicated Teams
Bringdev enables you to concentrate on your strategic goals, as our committed team serves as the driving force propelling your path to expansion.
Expansion of a Business
Partnering with Bringdev enables you to collaborate with a dependable and proficient team committed to assisting your business in reaching its utmost capabilities.
Innovative Methodology
Bringdev's inventive methodology facilitates business expansion. We forecast upcoming trends within the industry, devising effective solutions tailored to meet your unique requirements to tap into undiscovered opportunities.
Trust and Transparency
At Bringdev, we cultivate robust relationships built on trust and transparency. We follow through on our commitments, ensuring that you are kept updated and engaged throughout the project.
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