This guide helps you establish a set of AWS foundational capabilities to help support your use of development, test, and production hosting environments for your first few initial workloads.
Other capabilities that are specific to your workloads and your desired Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and operational processes including supporting tools are not currently addressed by this guide. You’ll layer those capabilities and solutions on top of the initial foundation addressed in this guide.
Initial forms of foundation capabilities addressed by this guide include:
AWS Organizational and Account Structure
Security
Networking
Foundation Automation
Review Note: Insert a layered architecture diagram to highlight the foundational capabilities that you will establish via this guide in support of your first few workloads moving into production will be just the start of an ongoing establishment of foundational capabilities. The upper layers of the diagram will show capabilites that are more workload and perhaps origanizational tool specific that are not addressed by the guide. For example, what the customer puts into their team development AWS accounts is outside the scope of the guide.
Review Note: This section will use the familiar notion of “crawl, walk, run” to emphasize that the initial set of capabilities and their degrees of realization as addressed in this guide is more akin to the “crawl” stage of cloud adoption and that further investment in the foundation is often needed as adoption expands.