In the past year, agility has become one of the most prized IT attributes as organizations race to deploy more workloads in the cloud. There is a paradox, however—the faster organizations deploy applications, the more likely mistakes will be made. Cloud computing deployments are rife with misconfigurations that are the direct result of developers provisioning cloud infrastructure rapidly—and incorrectly.

The challenge and the opportunity IT teams now face is defining a set of best practices for securely and consistently deploying application workloads on cloud infrastructures that complement and extend agile development methodologies.

Learn more about how the AWS Well-Architected Framework helps eliminate cloud misconfiguration mistakes, and how nOps (aligned directly with the five pillars of the Framework) helps DevOps teams and cloud consultants resolve cloud issues.

Read the full article on DevOps.com.