The Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework provides a comprehensive set of recommendations to help architects, developers, administrators, and other cloud practitioners design and manage cloud environments that are secure, efficient, reliable, high-performing, and cost-effective.
Google experts continuously update the framework's recommendations to incorporate the latest cloud capabilities and industry best practices. Recommendations in the framework are applicable to various deployment scenarios including cloud-first workloads, on-premises workloads that are migrated to the cloud, hybrid deployments, and multi-cloud environments.
Well-Architected Framework pillars and perspectives
The recommendations in the Well-Architected Framework are organized under the following pillars:
- Operational excellence: Efficiently deploy, operate, monitor, and manage your cloud workloads.
- Security: Maximize the security of your data and workloads in the cloud, design for privacy, and align with regulatory requirements and standards.
- Reliability: Design and operate resilient and highly available workloads in the cloud.
- Cost optimization: Maximize the business value of your investment in Google Cloud.
- Performance optimization: Design and tune your cloud resources for optimal performance.
The framework also provides cross-pillar perspectives: for specific domains like AI and ML, and for industries like financial services.
For more information, see Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework in the Architecture Center.
