The 5 Pillar Of The Well-Architected Framework

OptiSol Business Solutions
2 min readOct 5, 2021

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The modern way to build Websites and Apps that delivers better performance!

JAMStack Architecture:

JAMStack is the new standard architecture for the web. Using Git workflows and modern build tools, pre-rendered content is served to a CDN and made dynamic through APIs and serverless functions. Technologies in the stack include JavaScript frameworks, Static Site Generators, Headless CMSs, and CDNs.

JAMStack — Well-Architected Application

AWS has a set of 5 pillars that they consider to be a Well-Architected application and JAMStack apps hit all these pillars.

The 5 Pillars are,

  • Operational Excellence
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • Performance Efficiency
  • Cost Optimization

JAMStack Site Generators

To start with JAMStack, we need a static site generator. This is to turn down the markdown files into HTML.

Few of the available static site generators are,

  • Hugo
  • Gatsby
  • js
  • Hexo

JAMStack Hosting Sites

The best practices with JAMStack sites are to put it on a service with a CDN. Please find the below options.

  • Netlify
  • AWS Amplify
  • GitHub Pages
  • Azure Static Web Pages
  • Vercel

JAMStack workflow:

Traditional VS JAMStack Workflow

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