Customers of every size and industry type are moving to the cloud to increase their security, agility, cost efficiency, scalability, and ability to deploy more easily. Many customers are asking for our guidance to help them ensure their AWS environments meet those requirements. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Management and Governance Cloud Environment Guide (M&G Guide) provides clear guidance for you to follow. This guidance includes answers to key questions, recommended guardrails, and identifying AWS services and solutions from AWS Partners to help you build development, test, and production workloads at scale regardless of the stage of cloud adoption you are in. This document can be read in its entirety or by individual section depending on the focus of the reader.
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) helps you develop and run efficient and effective plans for your cloud adoption journey focused on people and processes. The M&G Guide builds on the CAF principles, offering prescriptive guidance with a focus on the technology. Cerner Corporation, a global health platform and technology company, completed an initiative in collaboration with AWS Professional Services to re-shape their cloud capabilities to support a growing, diverse, and global customer base:
