By answering a set of foundational questions you learn how well your architecture aligns with cloud best practices and are provided guidance for making improvements.
Aws storage and database architecture best practices.
4 follow security best practices when using aws database and data storage services.
Aws whitepapers guides expand your knowledge of the cloud with aws technical content authored by aws and the aws community including technical whitepapers technical guides reference material and reference architecture diagrams.
The recent spat of aws data leaks caused by misconfigured s3 buckets has underscored the need to make sure aws data storage services are kept secure at all times.
The aws well architected framework describes the key concepts design principles and architectural best practices for designing and running workloads in the cloud.
Aws offers multiple options to host your databases serving oltp workloads host your own managed database on amazon ec2 instances or use amazon rds managed by aws.
Rds manages high availability automated backups database upgrades os patches security and read replica.
Rds also offers the cloud native option amazon aurora database engine which is compatible.