Advanced AWS Well-Architected Best Practices

Module 1: AWS Well-Architected Framework Fundamentals

• Introduction to AWS Well-Architected
• Purpose and principles of the Framework
• Architecture decision-making
• General design principles
• Six pillars of the Framework
• Workload identification
• Architecture review methodology
• Risk identification
• Continuous improvement
• AWS Well-Architected Tool

Module 2: Operational Excellence

• Operational excellence principles
• Organizational preparation
• Observability
• Application telemetry
• Operational readiness
• Runbooks and playbooks
• Monitoring and alerting
• Incident management
• Automation
• Continuous improvement
• Operational performance reviews

Module 3: Security

• Security design principles
• AWS Shared Responsibility Model
• Identity and access management
• Least-privilege access
• Security controls
• Infrastructure protection
• Data protection
• Detection and monitoring
• Incident response
• Security automation
• Compliance and governance

Module 4: Reliability

• Reliability design principles
• Failure management
• Distributed systems
• Fault isolation
• Multi-AZ architectures
• Multi-Region architectures
• Recovery planning
• Backup strategies
• Disaster recovery
• RTO and RPO
• Automated recovery
• Failure testing
• Resilience validation

Module 5: Performance Efficiency

• Performance design principles
• Resource selection
• Performance monitoring
• Efficient architecture
• Scaling strategies
• Caching
• Database performance
• Network performance
• Compute optimization
• Storage optimization
• Hardware acceleration
• Performance testing

Module 6: Cost Optimization

• Cloud financial management
• Cost-aware architecture
• AWS pricing models
• Resource right-sizing
• Cost monitoring
• AWS Cost Explorer
• AWS Budgets
• AWS Trusted Advisor
• Cost allocation
• Usage optimization
• Savings Plans
• Reserved capacity
• Cost optimization reviews

Module 7: Sustainability

• Sustainability in cloud architecture
• Shared responsibility for sustainability
• Understanding workload impact
• Resource utilization
• Efficient infrastructure
• Workload optimization
• Managed services
• Storage optimization
• Data transfer considerations
• Sustainable architecture decisions

Module 8: Advanced Architecture Review

• Preparing for a Well-Architected review
• Defining workload scope
• Gathering architecture information
• Reviewing workload questions
• Identifying high-risk issues
• Risk prioritization
• Architecture trade-offs
• Remediation planning
• Documenting decisions
• Tracking improvements

Module 9: AWS Well-Architected Tool

• Introduction to the AWS Well-Architected Tool
• Creating workloads
• Selecting appropriate lenses
• Performing workload reviews
• Identifying high-risk issues
• Review reports
• Improvement plans
• Milestones
• Tracking remediation
• Continuous workload assessment

Module 10: Well-Architected Lenses

• Purpose of Well-Architected Lenses
• Selecting appropriate lenses
• Technology-specific reviews
• Serverless workloads
• Machine learning workloads
• Data analytics
• High-performance computing
• Hybrid networking
• Industry-specific considerations
• Combining lenses with the six pillars

Module 11: Advanced Resilience and Security Patterns

• Highly available architectures
• Multi-Region strategies
• Active-active architectures
• Active-passive architectures
• Zero Trust principles
• Defense in depth
• Centralized security
• Automated remediation
• Resilience engineering
• Chaos testing concepts
• Security and resilience trade-offs

Module 12: Architecture Optimization Workshop

• Review an existing AWS workload
• Identify architectural risks
• Evaluate all six pillars
• Prioritize high-risk findings
• Develop remediation strategies
• Compare architecture alternatives
• Estimate performance and cost impacts
• Create an improvement roadmap
• Document architecture decisions
• Perform a follow-up Well-Architected review

• AWS Solutions Architects
• Cloud Architects
• Enterprise Architects
• AWS Cloud Engineers
• Senior Cloud Engineers
• DevOps Engineers
• DevSecOps Engineers
• Site Reliability Engineers
• Infrastructure Architects
• Cloud Consultants
• Technical Leads
• IT Managers
• Professionals responsible for reviewing and optimizing AWS workloads
• Professionals preparing for advanced AWS architecture roles

• Understand and apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Evaluate workloads against all six Well-Architected pillars.
• Identify and prioritize architectural risks.
• Conduct structured Well-Architected workload reviews.
• Use the AWS Well-Architected Tool to assess and improve workloads.
• Design for operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Implement advanced AWS security and governance practices.
• Build highly reliable and resilient cloud architectures.
• Optimize AWS workloads for performance and scalability.
• Apply effective cloud cost optimization strategies.
• Incorporate sustainability into architectural decisions.
• Use appropriate AWS Well-Architected Lenses for specialized workloads.
• Develop remediation plans for high-risk architectural issues.
• Evaluate architectural trade-offs and business requirements.
• Create continuous improvement roadmaps for AWS workloads.
• Apply advanced best practices to enterprise and production AWS environments.

• Strong understanding of AWS core services.
• Practical experience designing or managing AWS workloads.
• Knowledge of AWS networking, compute, storage, and databases.
• Understanding of AWS security and IAM.
• Familiarity with high availability and disaster recovery.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability.
• Understanding of cloud cost management.
• Familiarity with DevOps and automation practices.
• Experience with architectural decision-making is beneficial.
• Prior exposure to the AWS Well-Architected Framework is recommended but not mandatory.

Course: Advanced AWS Well-Architected Best Practices
Level: Advanced
Hands-On: Yes
Technology: Amazon Web Services
Primary Framework: AWS Well-Architected Framework
Focus: Architecture review, optimization, resilience, security, performance, cost, operations, and sustainability