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The AWS Well-Architected Framework is based on six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. Building containerized applications brings a new dimension of considerations to each of these pillars. The architecture of containerized applications requires you to reconsider how to address security, operational efficiency, stability, and agility of their application stack when compared with traditional applications. In this section, we will present an overview of the container build concepts that will be used throughout this document.