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Principal-level cloud architecture — Well-Architected Framework pillars (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, cost optimisation, sustainability), region/AZ/zone topology, compute and storage selection, multi-region patterns, and the disciplined decisions that turn cloud capability into resilient, cost-aware, secure systems instead of a sprawling spend graph.
Nmor/the-claude-council · ★ 9 · AI & Automation · score 69

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# Cloud Architecture ## Purpose Design and operate cloud systems against the published Well- Architected frameworks (AWS, GCP, Azure) — applying the six pillars (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimisation, sustainability) as routine checks rather than once-a-year reviews. The goal is to choose the right service for the right workload, place it in the right topology (region / AZ / zone), wire it with the right network and identity boundaries, instrument it for the right operational signals, and make the cost-vs-resilience trade-offs explicitly rather than discovering them when the next bill arrives. The skill activates whenever a new system component is proposed, when a service-vs-service decision is being debated (Lambda vs ECS vs EKS, RDS vs Aurora vs DynamoDB, ALB vs NLB vs CloudFront + Lambda@Edge), when a multi-region or DR design is on the table, when a cost-optimisation push is underway, when a region migration or cloud migration is being scoped, when an architectural review is requested for an existing system, and when an incident reveals an underlying architecture flaw (cross-AZ traffic charges exploding, single-AZ blast radius, IAM blast radius, etc.). ## Standards Cited - **AWS Well-Architected Framework** (current revision, including the Sustainability pillar added 2021 and the Generative AI Lens added 2024) — six pillars + lenses + design principles + questions - **Google Cloud Architecture Framework** (clou