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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has established itself as the dominant force in cloud computing, providing a diverse range of services across industries worldwide. As of Q4 2024, AWS leads the global market with nearly 30% share, surpassing the combined efforts of major competitors like Google, Microsoft, and IBM, which collectively hold around 35%.
One of the key drivers of AWS’s success is its commitment to optimizing cloud infrastructure and ensuring customers maximize their cloud investments. To support this, AWS introduced the Well-Architected Framework, a structured approach to evaluating system performance and best practices.
But how can businesses determine if they are leveraging AWS effectively? The first step is to assess how different business units utilize AWS for their deliverables. By gathering insights on AWS adoption across departments and benchmarking them against AWS’s best practices, organizations can identify gaps and opportunities for improvement.
So, which business units should be evaluated? Here are five key areas to focus on.
Screening Independent Business Units that Leverage AWS
Operations
Operations teams are responsible for enabling and sustaining the day-to-day of the business. Working on generating continuous business value and constantly improving processes and procedures is the core function. Operations actively partake in process automation, event management, and setting standards on how businesses should run — activities critical to every organization. You will need to check if AWS assets are supporting operations teams at maximum capacity.
Cybersecurity
Studies from the IMF report that cyberthreats will cost the world $23 trillion in 2027, an increase of 175% from 2022. Securing business peripheries is crucial for cybersecurity teams as cyberattacks cause financial and reputational losses, not to mention the time taken to detect a breach and the resulting downtime. Security teams monitor security-related incidents and protect information and systems from potential violations. Cybersecurity also handles data integrity, privilege management, and establishing controls. Check if AWS’ intelligent and robust security controls are assisting in securing your business.
Information Technology
Information Technology teams handle mission-critical functions across the organization. Key responsibilities include optimum workload performance, system design & architecture, resilience to failures, and the efficient use of IT and computing resources. Monitoring IT teams is critical to understanding how well placed your AWS infrastructure is. It helps in delegating ideal resources to the relevant workloads, making informed decisions, and coping with ever-evolving business needs.
Cost Optimization
It is crucial to liaise with cost optimization teams to understand the cost factor of investing in AWS. Check for unnecessary costs, analyze money spent, and the ideal number of AWS resources. Generate reports on spending over time and help scale your business without overspending. These factors will help in determining the perfect spending on AWS and will contribute towards a better ROI.
Compliance
AWS is particular about building systems that comply with data laws. The HIPPA in the USA, the data protection law of Singapore, the GDPR of Europe, and many other laws encapsulate in the design of AWS systems. Compliance is key to safeguarding internal stakeholders and external customers. Hence, it is vital to check if established AWS systems follow all compliance rules that governments, agencies, and businesses have set. AWS already complies with a plethora of rules and regulations set by each country globally.
Your aim should be to maximize monetization and ROI from the established AWS infrastructure. All business units must be streamlined and optimized to combine and deliver excellent business outcomes. Collating data and observations and comparing them with AWS best practices is the key to generating remarkable business value.
The AWS Well-Architected Review
As an AWS advanced consulting partner, we have conducted multiple Well-Architected Reviews for our clients from various industries. During the review process, our certified experts will review your AWS architecture in four simple steps. Through the review session, we will understand the details about your workloads and check for their compliance with the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The review process is concluded with the sharing of our findings categorized into high, medium, and no risk in your AWS infrastructure, along with our recommendations for remediating the identified risks.
Want to schedule your Well-Architected Review? Contact us today.
