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AWS Well-Architected Alignment using CloudPlexo

Aligning CloudPlexo with the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Are you using the AWS cloud? Are you confident that you’ve designed secure, lean and reliable applications in the cloud? Do you want to assess and monitor infrastructure for technology risk, resilience and agility, while Optimising cost?


Focusing on supporting the efficient management of AWS cloud, the AWS Well-Architected framework is provided to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications and workloads based on best practices.

In line with this AWS Well-Architected framework, CloudPlexo has built its cloud management platform to enable our users to assess and monitor their cloud workloads based on the 5 Pillars of AWS well-architected framework and thereby enabling our customers to operate an AWS Well- Architected cloud.

Furthermore, CloudPlexo CCMP extends best practices that underlie the AWS Well-Architected Framework across multiple AWS cloud environments, providing a consistent approach and automated tool for customers and partners to evaluate cloud applications and workloads against AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices. Let’s take a quick look at the AWS 5 pillars of best practices and their significance in cloud operations which clearly aligns with the offerings of CloudPlexo;

Operational excellence

The operational excellence pillar ensures that organizations gets streamlined supports for their business objectives, having the ability to run workloads effectively, gaining insight into their operations, and continuously improving supporting processes and procedures to deliver business value.

Security

The security pillar focuses on taking advantage of cloud technologies to protect data, systems, and assets in a way that can improve the security posture of businesses, organizations, and agencies. This pillar further features in-depth, best-practice design principles for architecting secure workloads on AWS.

Reliability

This pillar encompasses the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it’s expected to. This includes the ability to operate and test the workload through its total lifecycle with optimal implementation of distributed system design, recovery planning, and change management.

Performance efficiency

The performance efficiency pillar focuses on the efficient use of computing resources to meet requirements, and how to maintain efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve. This involves optimized selection, review, monitoring, and trade-off analysis.

Cost optimization

The cost optimization pillar lays emphasis on aligning cost with the rate of resource consumption. This includes configuring notifications on exceeding usage or cost threshold, using the right pricing model for workload resources, providing cost and usage analysis with visual friendly representations, and offering a Cost and Usage Report (CUR) which will allow users to answer the most challenging questions on usage and cost.

CloudPlexo cloud management enables its users to monitor and operate a well-architected cloud infrastructure with full visibility and control over resources and expenditures across multiple cloud environments.