Change Enablement In The Cloud Aws Well Architected

AWS Well-Architected Change Enablement in the Cloud Copyright © 2025 Amazon Web Services, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Change Enablement in the Cloud AWS Well-Architected Change Enablement in the Cloud: AWS Well-Architected Copyright © 2025 Amazon Web Services, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Amazon's trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not Amazon's, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Amazon. All other trademarks not owned by Amazon are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by Amazon. Change Enablement in the Cloud AWS Well-Architected iii Change Enablement in the Cloud AWS Well-Architected Change Enablement in the Cloud Publication date: June 27, 2024 (Document revisions) Like every business function, change management should provide the capability for your organization to succeed. Just as every business has a finance function to govern spending, change management is essential for optimizing business risk. You can benefit from change management if you have migrated to the cloud, have a hybrid environment, or architected your workload natively in the cloud. An effective change management process is agile and reduces time to market while optimizing risk to your business. With an efficient process, you can improve the quality and speed of delivery of all changes for the business. An effective record of change should also act as one of your first troubleshooting references if an incident occurs. Typically, businesses transitioning to the cloud expect to iterate on products and deliver enhanced business value through an increased volume of changes to their IT infrastructure and applications. Current industry trends indicate that a high performing change management process is comprised of increased frequency of deployment, improved lead time for a change, and lower failure rates. However, to achieve this, it also requires version control and continuous delivery, as well as automated testing and deployment capabilities. Research also suggests that peer-reviewed changes within a team can achieve the same level of risk optimization as using a change advisory board. This is important because it allows organizations to decentralize change approval authority. (ITIL® 4: High-Velocity IT, PeopleCert+) By following the guidance in this paper, updating your processes aligns with both the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the AWS Well-Architected Operational Excellence Framework, ensuring adherence to best practices in governance when deploying changes to your AWS environment. Introduction In a cloud computing environment, new IT resources are readily available. This reduces the time it takes to make resources available to your developers, which leads to a dramatic increase in agility for the organization. As a result, the cost and time it takes to experiment and develop is significantly lower. For more detail, see Six advantages of cloud computing. The more successful an organization is at increasing its agility in the cloud, the more difficult it can become to manage change. Traditional processes can impede the volume and speed the Introduction 1