Conclusion

The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides architectural best practices across the six pillars for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud. The Framework provides a set of questions that allows you to review an existing or proposed architecture. It also provides a set of AWS best practices for each pillar. Using the Framework in your architecture will help you produce stable and efficient systems, which allow you to focus on your functional requirements. This High Performance Computing Lens whitepaper provides architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems for High Performance Computing workloads in the cloud. We've provided and overview of prototypical HPC architectures and overarching HPC design principles. We've revisited the Well-Architected pillars through the lens of HPC, providing you with a set of questions to help you review an existing or proposed HPC architecture. Applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework to your architecture helps you build stable and efficient systems, allowing you to focus on running HPC applications and pushing the boundaries of your field.