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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.
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