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Cibi Pranavan : Apr 14, 2023 10:04:08 AM
As a Software Partner in the AWS Well-Architected Partner Program, MontyCloud offers an automated solution for AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews (WAFR). MontyCloud’s automation-first approach enables customers to efficiently verify over 400+ best practices, simplify remediations, and enhance the security posture of workloads in a few clicks.
Recently, MontyCloud was recognized as a launch partner for the AWS Cloud Operations Competency. The Competency highlights partners that streamline end to end cloud operations for customers. As an industry leading Autonomous CloudOps platform, MontyCloud is thrilled to continue innovating on behalf of customers to simplify AWS Cloud Operations.
In this blog, I address the April 10, 2023 announcement from AWS that shared updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Additionally, I am excited to announce that MontyCloud DAY2 now includes support for these new updates, along with 300+ remediation playbooks.
In this release, a total of 113 best practices have been updated with more prescriptive guidance in various areas to enhance specific business outcomes in AWS using reusable architecture patterns. The updates include:
Additionally, 14 new best practices have been introduced to provide further guidance. These additions are aimed at achieving specific business outcomes:
Enable support plans for production workloads
Security:
Share resources securely with a third party
Perform regular penetration testing
Deploy software programmatically
Regularly assess security properties of the pipelines
Build a program that embeds security ownership in workload teams
Train for application security
Automate testing throughout the development and release lifecycle
Manual code reviews
Centralize services for packages and dependencies
Cost Optimization:
Perform automations for operations
Enforce data retention policies
Reliability:
Architect your product to meet availability targets and uptime service level agreements (SLAs)
Sustainability:
Implement buffering or throttling to flatten the demand curve
The latest updates in this release are already available via MontyCloud DAY2, In just a few clicks customers can run the latest version of WAFR assessments and perform remediations from within MontyCloud’s No-Code interface.
We encourage you to try MontyCloud DAY2 to you save time and money while achieving a well-architected posture for your workloads.
You can get started with MontyCloud in just 10 minutes or you can request a demo below!
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