Be Well-Architected for Operational Excellence

In the previous chapter, we discussed using observability services from AWS to help you accelerate your cloud adoption journey. In this chapter, we will examine using the Well-Architected Framework for observability workloads, such as CloudWatch metrics, Logs, X-Ray traces, and open source managed services from AWS. We will also learn about best practices according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars and about tools from AWS and the community that can help with adopting best practices for optimizing observability workloads and achieving the desired business outcomes.

Observability is one of the important parts of achieving the Well-Architected Framework for cloud workloads. Designing an observability toolset or observability solution on AWS that adheres to the best practices outlined in the the Well-Architected Framework requires consideration of multiple aspects.

In this chapter, we will understand how to apply the Well...