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

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 ...