Capstone: Following the AWS Well Architected Framework

Making design decisions visible

This beginner Coursera capstone reviews the AWS Well-Architected Framework in depth. It shows how design decisions affect a system and how to understand the risks in an architecture, then how to reduce those risks with specific changes.

The pillars in view

• Operational excellence, which covers how a team runs and improves systems.
• Reliability, which covers how a system recovers from failure.
• Security and cost optimization, which the course treats as design decisions with trade-offs.

The framework is described as six pillars that help produce stable and efficient systems, and the capstone walks through each one.

Good for

The course suits anyone who needs to explain architecture decisions to others, including people preparing for interviews where the framework comes up.