AWS Well-Architected Lenses

As of April-2022, AWS has launched 13 well-architected lenses addressing architecting needs specific to technology workload and industry domain. The followings are the important available lenses for AWS’s well-architected framework:

• Serverless Applications Lens – Building a serverless workload saves the cost and offloads infrastructure maintenance to the Cloud. The serverless lens provides details on best practices to architect serverless application workloads in the AWS Cloud. More information on design principles is available on the AWS website – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/serverless-applications-lens.
• Internet of Things (IoT) Lens – To design an IoT workload, you must know how to manage and secure million on devices those need to connect over the internet. IoT lens provides details on designing IoT workload. More details on design principles are available on the AWS website – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/iot-lens
• Data Analytics Lens – Data is the new gold. Every organization is trying to put their data to the best use to get insight for their customer and improve their business aspect. The data analytics lens provide best practice to build a data pipeline. More details on design principles are available on the AWS website – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/analytics-lens
• Machine Learning (ML) Lens – ML applies to almost any workload, especially getting future insight from historical data. With the ever-increasing adoption of ML workload, it is essential to have the ability production the ML model and use it at scale. ML lens provides best practices to train, tune and deploy your ML model. More details on design principles are available on the AWS website – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/machine-learning-lens.
• Hybrid Networking Lens – Networking is the backbone of any application workload, whether on-premise or Cloud. As enterprises are adopting the Cloud, there is need for a hybrid cloud setup is increasing every day to establish communication between on-premise and cloud workloads. AWS hybrid networking lens takes you to the best practice of designing networks for the hybrid Cloud. More details on design principles are available on the AWS website – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/hybrid-networking-lens

Above, we have covered some of the important lenses, but I will encourage you to explore other industry focus well-architected lenses such as Game, Streaming Media, Finance, and workload-specific lenses, including SAP, SaaS, HPC (High-Performance Computing), and FTR (Functional Technical Review) to validate your cloud platforms. You can apply various lenses when defining your workload in AWS’s well-architected Tool, as shown below:

After applying the lens to your workload, you will get a best practice checklist specific to the domain; for example, the below screenshot shows a Well-Architected checklist for Serverless Lens:

AWS users need to constantly evaluate their systems to ensure that they are following the recommended principles of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and AWS Well-Architected Lenses and that they comply with and follow architecture best practices. As you are getting more curious about AWS by now, let’s learn how to build your knowledge in the AWS cloud and establish yourself as a subject matter expert.