The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you understand the decisions you make while building workloads on AWS. The Framework provides architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable workloads in the cloud1.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework is based on six pillars:

• Operational Excellence
• Security
• Reliability
• Performance Efficiency
• Cost Optimization
• Sustainability

This post focuses on the Cost Optimization and on the Sustainability pillars.

The Cost Optimization pillar includes the ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point. A cost-optimized workload fully utilizes all resources, achieves an outcome at the lowest possible price point, and meets your functional requirements.

By adopting the practices in this pillar you will build capability within your organization, design your workload, select your services, configure and operate the services, and apply cost optimization techniques.

This pillar provides an overview of design principles, best practices, and questions.

The Sustainability pillar focuses on environmental impacts, especially energy consumption and efficiency since they are important levers for architects to inform direct action to reduce resource usage. It provides design principles, operational guidance, best practices, potential trade-offs, and improvement plans you can use to meet sustainability targets for your AWS workloads.

By adopting the practices in this pillar you can build architectures that maximize efficiency and reduce waste.

This pillar provides an overview of design principles, best practices, and questions.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.