Singlepoint AWS Well-Architected Review
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This document summarizes a proposal from Singlepoint Solutions Ltd. for an AWS Well-Architected Review. The review is a free consultation where a Singlepoint AWS Certified Architect evaluates a customer's AWS workload against best practices. The architect identifies areas of risk and opportunity for improvement. Singlepoint then provides a report with recommendations and an action plan to optimize the customer's AWS architecture and usage over time. The goal is to help customers design secure, high-performing, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure on AWS.
Singlepoint AWS Well-Architected Review
- 1. This document is protected under the copyright laws of Ireland and other countries as an unpublished work. This document contains information that is proprietary and confidential to Singlepoint which shall not be disclosed outside, or duplicated, used or disclosed in whole or in part for any purpose other than to evaluate Singlepoint. Any use or disclosure in whole or in part of this information without the express permission of Singlepoint is prohibited. © 2019 Singlepoint Solutions Ltd. All rights reserved. Maximise and Future- Proof Your Cloud InfrastructureAWS Well-Architected Review
- 2. Fabio Douek Head of Cloud Architecture https://www.linkedin.com/in/fdouek/ fabio.douek@singlepoint.ie
- 3. About Us
- 4. THE FULL DIGITAL EXPERIENCE From strategy through execution, we deliver award-winning digital portals and applications AND the infrastructure you need to run them on - so your organisation can benefit from a full, first-rate digital experience. Customer Experience We deliver next-generation customer experience applications, with outstanding design to help you increase the ease of doing business. We help organisations integrate and draw optimal value from their existing systems and enable them to gain insights from all their data sources and channels. Legacy Systems Integration Mobility We help you streamline your business processes to increase user satisfaction. Cloud Infrastructure We help organisations migrate from On- Premises to Cloud and show them how to best deliver Cloud solutions.
- 6. WHAT IS THE WELL-ARCHITECTED FRAMEWORK? Design Principles The Well-Architected Framework identifies a set of general design principles to facilitate good design in the cloud. 5 Pillars Incorporating these pillars into your architecture will help you produce stable and efficient systems. Questions The Framework provides a set of questions to evaluate how well an architecture is aligned to AWS best practices.
- 7. GENERAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES The Well-Architected Framework identifies a set of general design principles to facilitate good design in the cloud: Stop guessing your capacity needs Test systems at production scale Automate to make architectural experimentation easier Allow for evolutionary architectures Drive architectures using data Test how your architecture perform regularly
- 8. OPERATIONA L EXCELLENCE • Perform operations as code • Annotate documentation • Make frequent, small, reversible changes • Refine operations procedures frequently • Anticipate failure • Learn from all operational failures Design principles Key AWS Service Best practice areas • Prepare • Operate • Evolve • AWS CloudFormation
- 9. SECURITY • Implement a strong identity foundation • Enable traceability • Apply security at all layers • Automate security best practices • Protect data in transit and at rest • Keep people away from data • Prepare for security event Design principles Key AWS Service Best practice areas • Identity and access management • Detective controls • Infrastructure protection • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) • Data protection • Incident response
- 10. RELIABILITY • Test recovery procedures • Automatically recover from failure • Scale horizontally to increase aggregate system availability • Stop guessing capacity • Manage change in automation Design principles Key AWS Service Best practice areas • Foundations • Change management • Failure management • Amazon CloudWatch
- 11. PERFORMANC E EFFICIENCY • Democratise advanced technologies • Go global in minutes • Use serverless architectures • Experiment more often • Mechanical sympathy Design principles Key AWS Service Best practice areas • Selection • Review • Monitoring • Tradeoffs • Amazon CloudWatch
- 12. COST OPTIMISATIO N • Adopt a consumption model • Measure overall efficiency • Stop spending money on data center operations • Analyze and attribute expenditure • Use managed and application level services to reduce cost of ownership Design principles Key AWS Service Best practice areas • Expenditure Awareness • Cost-Effective Resources • Matching supply and demand • Optimising Over Time • AWS Cost Explorer
- 14. THE WELL-ARCHITECTED REVIEW The review is a conversation with our specialists, not an audit. It is performed by one of Singlepoint’s AWS Certified Well-Architected Review practitioners.
- 15. WELL-ARCHITECTED REVIEW: OUR APPROACHChoosing one important workload on AWS to focus on, a certified AWS Architect will use their skills and experience in applications, automation and AWS to find the most important parts of the Well- Architected Framework relevant to your unique situation. The Well-Architected Review is not an audit. We do not try to answer every single question. Our approach is as follows: You choose an important application and its data Our AWS architect analyses your application and data You collaborate with us to find the most important learnings and recommend actions We provide a remediation plan to help you move forward
- 16. WELL-ARCHITECTED REVIEW: OUR APPROACH Schedule: choose a day for our AWS Solution Architect to meet business and technical representatives. This can be online or in person. Preparations: prepare information according to the list of requirements we sent you. The review: on the day of the review, discuss the architecture and focus on the areas of perceived risk – your concerns, anything that may have come to light from the prepared material, or common pain-points. The recommendations: the review report provides the snapshot of alignment with the Well-Architected Framework for the chosen workload. The Remediation Plan is an actionable plan for evolving the cloud architecture for the chosen workload. Remediation: you can choose to engage us to turn the Remediation Plan into a Statement of Work. Doing so will release up to $5,000 of AWS usage credits. Cost: free.
- 17. BENEFITS • Benchmarked best practices: assess your workloads against the 5 pillars’ best practices and mitigate against technical risks • Actionable insights: determine short and long-terms remediation actions based on your specific business needs • Certified expertise: get help interpreting AWS services, immediately addressing issues like cost and operational excellence • AWS usage credits: receive AWS usage credits towards further AWS services highlighted in the remediation plan
- 18. WHY TRUST SINGLEPOINT? Our AWS Well-Architected Partner status differentiates us as an APN member that provides demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in identifying if customer workloads meet the five pillars. AWS Advanced Partner Cross-Industry Experience Our AWS professionals have gathered a solid experience working with companies across a wide range of businesses and organisations. We help you build better cloud platforms thanks to our commitment to continuous improvement through learning on new technologies. New Technologies Specialists
- 19. REQUEST YOUR FREE REVIEW TODAY Take care of your cloud architecture with Singlepoint GET STARTED 2 Dublin Landings | North Wall Quay | D01V4A3 | info@singlepoint.ie | +353 (0)1 588 0993
Editor's Notes
- #8: Stop guessing your capacity needs: Eliminate guessing about your infrastructure capacity needs. When you make a capacity decision before you deploy a system, you might end up sitting on expensive idle resources or dealing with the performance implications of limited capacity. With cloud computing, these problems can go away. You can use as much or as little capacity as you need, and scale up and down automatically. Test systems at production scale: In the cloud, you can create a production-scale test environment on demand, complete your testing, and then decommission the resources. Because you only pay for the test environment when it's running, you can simulate your live environment for a fraction of the cost of testing on premises. Automate to make architectural experimentation easier: Automation allows you to create and replicate your systems at low cost and avoid the expense of manual effort. You can track changes to your automation, audit the impact, and revert to previous parameters when necessary. Allow for evolutionary architectures: Allow for evolutionary architectures. In a traditional environment, architectural decisions are often implemented as static, one-time events, with a few major versions of a system during its lifetime. As a business and its context continue to change, these initial decisions might hinder the system's ability to deliver changing business requirements. In the cloud, the capability to automate and test on demand lowers the risk of impact from design changes. This allows systems to evolve over time so that businesses can take advantage of innovations as a standard practice. Drive architectures using data: In the cloud you can collect data on how your architectural choices affect the behavior of your workload. This lets you make fact-based decisions on how to improve your workload. Your cloud infrastructure is code, so you can use that data to inform your architecture choices and improvements over time. Improve through game days: Test how your architecture and processes perform by regularly scheduling game days to simulate events in production. This will help you understand where improvements can be made and can help develop organizational experience in dealing with events.
- #9: The Operational Excellence pillar includes the ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to continually improve supporting processes and procedures. There are six design principles for operational excellence in the cloud:
- #10: The Security pillar includes the ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
- #11: The Reliability pillar includes the ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service disruptions, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand, and mitigate disruptions such as misconfigurations or transient network issues.
- #12: The Performance Efficiency pillar includes the ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.
- #13: The Cost Optimization pillar includes the ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point.