Supply Chain Lens - AWS Well-Architected Framework
Publication date: September 9, 2025 (Document revisions)
The Well-Architected Supply Chain Lens describes the customer user scenarios and pillar questions, best practices, and Implementation guidance for customers building and managing their supply chain workloads on AWS.
Introduction
The AWS Well-Architected Supply Chain Lens is a collection of customer-proven best practices for designing Well-Architected supply chain workloads. The Supply Chain Lens contains insights, key design elements and recommendations that AWS has gathered from real-world case studies. The Supply Chain Lens is built upon six fundamental pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization and sustainability. This framework provides a consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures, remediate risks, and implement designs that deliver business value.
Supply chain covers a wide range of services such as manufacturing, inventory planning, warehouse and distribution, labor planning, materials and facilities management in addition to variety of transportation and logistics services like airfreight, maritime, trucking, and rail. It is an assets-intensive horizontal across multiple industries. Therefore, supply chain companies own a large stack of technologies designed and configured based on the catalogue of services they offer their customers. Typically, there is a mix of third-party technologies configured and customized, along with in-house developments to cover their business needs.
The Supply Chain Lens provides implementation guidance for different scenarios in a supply chain customer cloud journey. It helps customers manage their workloads of different software vendors ISVs such as ERPs and TMS solutions in an efficient and cost-efficient approach. The lens also recommends the AWS services that best supports the development and integration of new solutions in a secure and reliable architecture. The Supply Chain Lens helps you consistently measure your architectures against best practices and identify areas for improvement.
This document is intended for those in technology roles, such as chief technology officers (CTOs), chief information security officers (CISOs), architects, developers, compliance officers, and operations team members. After reading this document, you will understand AWS best practices and strategies to use when designing architectures for the development and deployment of supply chain workloads and applications.
Custom lens availability
Custom lenses extend the best practice guidance provided by AWS Well-Architected Tool. AWS WA Tool allows you to create your own custom lenses, or to use lenses created by others that have been shared with you.
To determine if a custom lens is available for the lens described in this whitepaper, reach out to your Technical Account Manager (TAM), Solutions Architect (SA), or Support.
