AWS Guidance
Well-Architected Pillars
ItThe AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you understand the pros and cons of the decisions you make when building systems in the cloud. The six pillars of the Framework allow you to learn architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems. Using the AWS Well-Architected Tool, available at no charge in the AWS Management Console, you can review your workloads against these best practices by answering a set of questions for each pillar.
The architecture diagram above is an example of a Solution created with Well-Architected best practices in mind. To be fully Well-Architected, you should follow as many Well-Architected best practices as possible.
Amazon QLDB is a serverless database and the customer only pays for what they use. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) also allows customers to build a microservices platform and scale the services as needs change.
The platform is built using native AWS services, which integrate natively with Amazon CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring, logging, and auditing purposes. The applications are built as microservices and scale independently of each other using an event-driven architecture.
The Amazon API Gateway and AWS WAF protects all of the API requests coming into the platform. The various resources are also logically isolated from each other using VPCs.
All services are scalable to multiple AZs within the region to provide high resiliency. Reliability is also improved by using Amazon MSK to capture data and to build an event-driven platform.
Amazon FSx for Lustre is a shared file system suitable for batch processing requirements where the batch jobs need to finish within a certain timeframe. In addition, real-time transactions need to be written to the database and the response sent within about 200ms. This is achieved by having Direct Connect with the bank’s data center for network connectivity and having as few hops as possible for the transactions to be written to the ledger database.