Cloudcraft Helps You Hit All 5 Pillars of AWS’ Well-Architected Framework

Cloudcraft
3 min readNov 13, 2018

In June, AWS introduced the Well-Architected Framework, a formula of 5 pillars to help you build and optimize your cloud. The 5 pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework include: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency and Cost Optimization.

The five pillars AWS Well-Architected Framework

Cloudcraft believes that a successful business is correlated to a flawlessly designed architecture. It’s easy to read about the 5 pillars, however, actually designing and implementing the pillars is difficult. Cloudcraft makes it easier (and prettier) to build an efficient cloud.

Operational Excellence

https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/

Cloudcraft monitors, manages, visualizes, and optimizes AWS resources. Cloudcraft has many built-in components like EC2, ELB, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Redshift, etc. to create an easy way to manage daily operations.

Cloudcraft captures real data and creates realtime live diagrams through using the Live feature and integration of AWS accounts.

Cloudcraft initiates valuable insights that can lead to successful operational excellence.

Cost Optimization

https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/

Cloudcraft’s Budget feature allows you to play with your AWS inventory. The Budget will give you real time prices without actually deploying onto your AWS account.

For example, let’s say I want to see how much adding an ELB would be. By simply clicking the ‘ELB’ , the total price and pie graph will be automatically updated.

Security

https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/

Cloudcraft puts security at the forefront of everything and takes many steps to ensure a secure platform — All cloudcraft data is encrypted (at-rest, in-transit, backups, and keys). All the data, including your diagrams, is by default private and only accessible to you. For more security information go to https://cloudcraft.co/security or email security@cloudcraft.co

Reliability

https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/

To this date, Cloudcraft has never gone down! So rest assured, Cloudcraft is reliable.

Performance Efficency

https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/

To create collaboration, users can directly attach documents to any components within the diagram.

Attaching documents makes it easier for team members to make edits or change their diagrams. Another important feature is that the data and Cloudcraft are always synchronized — this meaning that when changes are made in the actual cloud environment, those changes will appear and update in the diagram.

Cloudcraft is here to help you build more efficient architecture, drop us an email with any questions — support@cloudcraft.co

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