AWS Well-Architected Framework: The Security Pillar

The security pillar encompasses protecting information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies. We look at best-practice guidance.

We’re continuing our series on each of the pillars of the well-architected framework. We talked about the operational excellence pillar last time. This time, we will talk about security. A prerequisite is threat modeling. If you’re going to talk about security, threat modeling is your number one way to understand where you are. As a pillar, it is interesting. There are ten questions and a couple of different sections.