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Design of secure, scalable, reliable, and economical systems on cloud platforms.
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Cloud architecture describes structure and operating decisions for applications on shared, elastically provisioned cloud resources.
The approach was shaped by standardizing the cloud model: in 2011 NIST defined five essential characteristics plus service and deployment models. The AWS Well-Architected Framework builds on this foundation for secure, reliable, and efficient cloud workloads.
A cloud architecture connects application, data, network, identity, and operations with managed or self-operated resources. Scaling, failure, cost, and security are evaluated as one system.
Resources are provisioned and released to match demand.
Providers dynamically share configurable resources.
Security, reliability, performance, cost, and operations are considered together.
Cloud architecture makes technical dependencies and quality goals visible before operation.
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