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Launched AI Well-Architected

Launched the AI Well-Architected best practices.

2026-09-20

Added best practices

• Added nine best practices to the stability pillar, covering high availability architecture scenarios:

  • service quota and capacity planning

  • network topology

2026-03-06

Added best practices

• Added four best practices to the cost pillar, covering cost strategies, monitoring, and optimization in network scenarios.

• Added seven best practices to the performance pillar, covering the network resources scenario.

2026-02-27

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Added best practices

• Added 28 best practices to the security pillar, covering the following scenarios:

  • Security architecture foundation

  • user identity management

  • programmatic identity management

  • permission management

  • compute resource protection

  • event detection

2025-07-14

Documentation structure update

Restructured the documentation around the three core components of the Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework:

1. Learn: Features content from the Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework Whitepaper, covering theories, methods, and design principles.

2. Measure: Covers the architecture assessment tool and measurement models.

3. Optimize: Provides best practices and solutions for the Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework. 100 solutions were published, including:

   • Security: solutions

   • Stability: solutions

   • Cost: solutions

   • Efficiency: solutions

2025-07-07

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Initial release

Published the Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework Whitepaper.

2023-09-25