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Add best practices

• Under the reliability pillar, add 9 best practices covering selected high availability architecture scenarios.

  • Service quotas and capacity planning

  • Network topology

2026-03-06

Add best practices

• Under the cost optimization pillar, add 4 best practices covering cost strategies, monitoring, and optimization for networking scenarios.

• Under the performance efficiency pillar, add 7 best practices covering the networking resources scenario.

2026-02-27

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Add best practices

• Under the security pillar, add 28 best practices covering the following scenarios.

  • Security architecture fundamentals

  • Human identity management

  • Program identity management

  • Permission management

  • Compute resource protection

  • Event detection

2025-07-14

Restructure the document

Restructure the document to align with the three core components of the Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework.

1. Learn: Content from the Cloud Well-Architected Whitepaper, which explains theory, methods, and design principles.

2. Measure: Introduces architecture assessment tools and measurement models.

3. Optimize: Provides best practices and solutions for the Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework. Publish 100 solutions in total.

   • Security solutions

   • Reliability solutions

   • Cost optimization solutions

   • Operational excellence solutions

2025-07-07

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Initial release

Release the Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework whitepaper.

2023-09-25