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AWS Well-Architected Review

AxonFlow's production architecture has been reviewed against the AWS Well-Architected Framework and achieves strong compliance across all five pillars.

Well-Architected Score: 8.6/10​

PillarScoreStatus
Operational Excellence8/10Strong
Security9/10Excellent
Reliability9/10Excellent
Performance Efficiency9/10Excellent
Cost Optimization8/10Strong

Architecture Highlights​

AxonFlow's AWS deployment achieves:

  • Zero Single Points of Failure - Multi-AZ deployment for all components
  • 99.90% Availability - Multi-Instance HA + Multi-AZ RDS + AWS ALB
  • Sub-10ms P95 Latency - Consistent SLO compliance
  • Strong Security Posture - AWS Secrets Manager, SSM Session Manager, no SSH exposure

High Availability Architecture​

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    AWS ALB                          │
│              (Multi-AZ, 99.99% SLA)                 │
└─────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┘
                      │
          ┌───────────┴───────────┐
          │                       │
┌─────────▼─────────┐   ┌─────────▼─────────┐
│   AZ-a Instance   │   │   AZ-b Instance   │
│  - Agents         │   │  - Agents         │
│  - Orchestrators  │   │  - Orchestrators  │
│  - Monitoring     │   │  - Monitoring     │
└─────────┬─────────┘   └─────────┬─────────┘
          │                       │
          └───────────┬───────────┘
                      │
          ┌───────────▼───────────┐
          │     RDS Multi-AZ      │
          │   PostgreSQL (HA)     │
          │  Auto-failover 1-2min │
          └───────────────────────┘

Pillar Summary​

Operational Excellence (8/10)​

  • Zero-downtime rolling deployments
  • Comprehensive Prometheus/Grafana monitoring
  • Infrastructure-as-Code via CloudFormation

Security (9/10)​

  • All credentials in AWS Secrets Manager
  • SSM Session Manager (no SSH keys)
  • License validation with HMAC signatures
  • Encryption at rest and in transit

Reliability (9/10)​

  • No infrastructure single points of failure
  • Multi-AZ RDS with automatic failover
  • Application-level retry logic with exponential backoff
  • AWS ALB health checks

Performance Efficiency (9/10)​

  • Sub-10ms P95 policy evaluation latency
  • Right-sized instances based on load testing
  • Efficient resource utilization

Cost Optimization (8/10)​

  • Pay-per-use model with ECS Fargate
  • AWS Budgets configured for cost alerts
  • Right-sized for actual workload

AWS Compliance​

AxonFlow's architecture supports:

  • HIPAA - Via AWS Bedrock VPC endpoints and encryption
  • SOC 2 - Audit logging and access controls
  • GDPR - Data residency options and PII detection