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    Storm Reply has been a Premier Consulting Partner for several years and has achieved some of the most important AWS competencies: Migration, DevOps, IoT, Data & Analytics, MSP and ORACLE. Storm Reply has been focused on applying the AWS Best Practices day-by-day starting from the beginning. Moreover, the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) is a key driver for architecting, delivering, and optimizing customer workloads to keep the security, dependability, and performance as high as possible. Incidentally, the WAF methodology allows us to help customers to optimize operations and costs at the same time.

    What is a Well-Architected Review?

    The Well-Architected methodology is based on the follow pillars:

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    Operational Excellence

    Security

    Performance Efficiency

    The operational excellence pillar includes the ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to continually improve supporting processes and procedures.

    The security pillar includes the ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.

    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.

    Design Principles

    • Perform operations as code
    • Annotate documentation
    • Make frequent, small, reversible changes
    • Refine operations procedures frequently
    • Anticipate failure
    • Learn from all operational failures

    Design Principles

    • Implement a strong identity foundation
    • Enable traceability
    • Apply security at all layers
    • Automate security best practices
    • Protect data in transit and at rest
    • Prepare for security events

    Design Principles

    • Democratize advanced technologies
    • Go global in minutes
    • Use serverless architectures
    • Experiment more often
    • Mechanical sympathy


    Cost optimization

    Reliability

    The cost optimization pillar includes the ability to avoid or eliminate unneeded cost or suboptimal resources.

    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.

    Design Principles

    • Adopt a consumption model
    • Measure overall efficiency
    • Stop spending money on data center operations
    • Analyze and attribute expenditure
    • Use managed services to reduce cost of ownership

    Design Principles

    • Test recovery procedures
    • Automatically recover from failure
    • Scale horizontally to increase aggregate system availability
    • Stop guessing capacity
    • Manage change in automation

    What are the benefits of the WAF?

    The AWS Well-Architected Framework is designed to help and guide cloud architects build the most secure, powerful, robust, and efficient AWS infrastructure.

    The framework helps to best understand all decisions that need to be made when deploying systems in the AWS cloud and provides the ability to compare AWS architectures against best practices and identify areas for improvement.

    This makes the operation of applications in the AWS cloud even more reliable, secure, efficient and cost-effective.

    What’s more, AWS sweetens the pot with billing credits as an incentive. The customer goes through a Well-Architected Review, which is a commitment of a few hours. If the customer moves forward with any remediation identified in the Review within 30 days, AWS provides credits to the customer’s account.

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    Why Storm Reply for the WAF?

    Storm Reply is Amazon AWS Premier Consulting Partner, one of the best Amazon Partners in the world, and the only company to have so many different abilities attested by AWS: Mass Migration, Managed Service Provider, IoT, DevOps, Oracle, and BigData.

    Through the AWS Well-Architected assessment and review program, Storm Reply can provide a strategic guidance and best practices to help organizations to evaluate and remediate systems.

    Schedule a Review Meeting

    The Well-Architected review meeting can be fulfilled through a video conference call with our Senior Cloud Solution Architects. Please fill the contact form in the homepage to get in touch with us.

    WHAT IS THE PROCESS OF THE WAF?

    Define the scope e.g. a complete AWS account or a single application and arrange a meeting with us

    Depending on the complexity of the selected scope and your application architecture, we assume a time requirement of 4 to 6 hours for the first interview.

    Invite your team to the review, which ideally represents your IT as well as your business

    The review is moderated by a Senior Solution Architect (AWS Approved Well-Architected Partner).

    Execution of the review

    On your premises.

    Review of your AWS architecture in terms of security, reliability, efficiency, cost optimization, operational excellence.

    Assessment of your AWS architecture / Questions & Answers.

    Identification of optimization potentials.

    After the review

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    • Recommendations for the implementation of the identified optimization potentials.
    • Drawing up a roadmap with short, medium and long-term goals, based on the results.

    Client

    • Of course, you decide for yourself if and when you want to implement our recommendations and to what extent.
    • In order to implement the recommendations, AWS will even provide you with financing via credits on request.
    • We recommend regular Well-Architected Reviews to continuously improve your AWS environments.

    CUSTOMER SUCCESS

    Storm Reply helped several Customers to review their mission critical and business critical workloads leveraging the AWS Well-Architected Framework in conjunction with the deep experience acquired during the last years. The remediations performed by Storm Reply allowed our Customers to increase both the Security and the Reliability of the critical workloads. Moreover, leveraging the Cost Optimization and Performance Efficiency pillars, we were able to achieve the best workload performances with a cost-effective benefit. Finally, the Operational Excellence approach is a key value for continuously increasing the daily operations.

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