Introducing the AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens

Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens

We’re excited to introduce the new AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens, designed to help customers build and maintain effective generative AI workloads on AWS. The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, and high-performing workloads. The Generative AI Lens applies these principles specifically to generative AI, helping businesses achieve their goals through large language models (LLMs).

What is the Generative AI Lens?

The Well-Architected Generative AI Lens focuses on six key pillars across six phases of the generative AI lifecycle:

1. Scoping the impact of generative AI
2. Selecting appropriate models
3. Customizing models for performance
4. Integrating models into applications
5. Deploying generative AI capabilities
6. Iterating and improving released capabilities

This lens provides cloud-agnostic best practices aligned with the Well-Architected Framework pillars for each phase of the generative AI lifecycle. It can be applied during design or as part of continuous improvement after deployment.

Key Topics Covered

The Generative AI Lens discusses several critical areas:

• Responsible AI: Considerations for implementing generative AI responsibly
• Data Architecture: Nuances of data architectures for generative AI workloads

Who Should Use This Lens?

This resource is valuable for various roles:

• Business leaders seeking to understand end-to-end implementation and benefits
• Data scientists and engineers looking to secure and gain insights from their data
• Risk and compliance leaders ensuring regulatory compliance

Components of the Generative AI Lens

The lens includes four main focus areas:

1. Design Principles: Guidelines framing the best practices
2. Generative AI Lifecycle and Well-Architected Framework Pillars: Strategies across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability
3. Cloud-Agnostic Best Practices: Implementation guidance and AWS-specific plans
4. Resources and Considerations: Links to supporting documents, videos, and code examples, plus discussions on data architecture and responsible AI

Next Steps

The AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens is now available. Use it to ensure your generative AI workloads are architected with operational excellence, security, and sustainability in mind. For implementation support, contact your AWS Solutions Architect or Account Representative.

For further reading, explore the AWS Well-Architected Framework and pillar whitepapers, or use the AWS Well-Architected Machine Learning Lens available in the AWS Well-Architected Tool.