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REL 3. How do you design your workload service architecture?

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REL 3. How do you design your workload service architecture? - AWS Well-Architected Framework

Build highly scalable and reliable workloads using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) or a microservices architecture. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the practice of making software components reusable via service interfaces. Microservices architecture goes further to make components smaller and simpler.

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