Cloud Well-Architected Cheat Sheet

All major clouds’ well-architected documentation are fantastic resources for building and running cloud applications and platforms. It deserves a cheat sheet.

	Operational Excellence	Security	Reliability
Azure	Embrace DevOps culture	Plan your security readiness	Design for business requirements
	Establish development standards	Design to protect confidentiality	Design for resilience
	Evolve operations with observability	Design to protect integrity	Design for recovery
	Deploy with confidence	Design to protect availability	Design for operations
	Automate for efficiency	Sustain and evolve your security posture	Keep it simple
	Adopt safe deployment practices
Google Cloud	Operational Excellence	Security	Reliability
	Automate your deployments	Review shared responsibility and shared fate on Google Cloud	Understand the core reliability principles
	Set up monitoring, alerting, and logging	Understand security principles	Define your reliability goals
	Establish cloud support and escalation processes	Manage risks with controls	Define SLOs
	Manage capacity and quota	Manage your assets	Adopt SLOs
	Plan for peak traffic and launch events	Manage identity and access	Build observability into your infrastructure and application
	Create a culture of automation	Implement compute and container security	Design for scale and high availability
		Secure your network	Create reliable operational processes and tools
		Implement data security	Build efficient alerts
		Deploy applications security	Build a collaborative incident management process
		Manage compliance obligations
		Implement data residency and sovereignty requirements
		Implement privacy requirements
		Implement logging and detective controls
AWS	Operation Excellence	Security	Reliability
	Perform operations as code	Implement a strong identity foundation	Automatically recover from failure
	Make frequent, small, reversible changes	Maintain traceability	Test recovery procedures
	Refine operations procedures frequently	Apply security at all layers	Scale horizontally to increase aggregate workload availability
	Anticipate failure	Automate security best practices	Stop guessing capacity
	Learn from all operational failures	Protect data in transit and at rest	Manage change through automation
	Use managed services	Keep people away from data
	Implement observability for actionable insights	Prepare for security events

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Prompt to copilot:

Turn the #selection into a Markdown table, with “##” as the first column and “###” headings as the following columns. Do it for each cloud and then concatenate them.