Building Cloud Excellence: How JFrog Supports the AWS Well-Architected Framework

In today’s hybrid infrastructure landscape, migrating applications to the cloud unlocks significant financial and technological benefits. Whether internal or external, these applications require robust, efficient infrastructure. Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer frameworks to help organizations build better systems.

AWS Well-Architected helps cloud architects design secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure, guiding users with best practices to make informed decisions for AWS environments. The June 2024 update refreshed the six pillars of the framework to incorporate new recommendations.

In this blog, we analyze the AWS Well-Architected Framework to help JFrog customers apply best practices. Specifically, the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform offers solutions that address the Operational Excellence and Security pillars.

Keep reading for an overview of these two pillars and learn how JFrog solutions can help build secure, reliable, and efficient cloud architectures. For a deep dive, download our comprehensive guide to explore anti-patterns, JFrog solutions, and more for your cloud-native DevSecOps journey.

>>Download the Guide

Security: Protecting Your Software and Cloud Infrastructure

Key Principle: The Security pillar emphasizes protecting data, systems, and assets through robust access management, risk assessment, and incident response strategies.

How JFrog Helps:

JFrog Xray and JFrog Advanced Security are designed to secure your software supply chain by scanning artifacts for vulnerabilities, ensuring that only safe, compliant components are deployed to your cloud environment.

JFrog also integrates with AWS security services – such as AWS Security Hub – to provide enhanced protection across your cloud infrastructure. Features like granular access control, encryption, and auditing ensure that your cloud deployments meet security best practices. JFrog’s continuous security scanning detects potential threats before they can impact your systems, supporting a proactive security posture that aligns with AWS’s stringent security guidelines. Further, JFrog’s own products are secured using access controls that ensure SSO and 2FA compliance, secure key and token management, and third party vault integration.

Operational Excellence: Automate and Streamline Your Cloud Operations

Key Principle: Operational Excellence focuses on running and monitoring systems to deliver business value, while continuously improving processes and procedures.

How JFrog Helps:

JFrog Artifactory enables organizations to automate the entire DevOps lifecycle—from code to production—ensuring continuous delivery and seamless operations. With integrated monitoring and logging capabilities, JFrog helps teams proactively detect and resolve issues, ensuring cloud environments run smoothly. Also, JFrog Release Lifecycle Management ensures all builds, dependencies, and related artifacts are shipped together in Release Bundles.

Summary & Conclusion

The AWS Well-Architected Framework continues to provide essential guidance for building secure, reliable, and efficient cloud infrastructures. Its latest update reinforces AWS’s commitment to best practices, particularly across its six pillars, including Operational Excellence and Security. By adhering to these principles, organizations can optimize their cloud strategies and improve performance across workloads.

As an AWS Partner, JFrog aligns with these best practices, offering solutions through the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform that enhance both operational excellence and security. Whether you’re building cloud-native applications or refining your DevSecOps journey, JFrog provides the tools you need to succeed.

>>Dive deeper with the guide to how JFrog supports the Well-Architected Framework

Ready to take your cloud architecture to the next level? Learn more about JFrog’s cloud deployment solutions and take our self-guided interactive platform tour to see how JFrog can support your AWS Well-Architected Framework journey.

Stay tuned for more analysis around similar frameworks from Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.