Policy: AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Reliability > REL 03. How do you design your workload service architecture? > Choose how to segment your workload

Monolithic architecture should be avoided. Instead, you should choose between SOA and microservices. When making each choice, balance the benefits against the complexities—what is right for a new product racing to first launch is different than what a workload built to scale from the start needs. The benefits of using smaller segments include greater agility, organizational flexibility, and scalability. Complexities include possible increased latency, more complex debugging, and increased operational burden.

See Choose how to segment your workload for more information.

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This policy targets the following resource types:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Reliability > REL 03. How do you design your workload service architecture?

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Setting this policy configures this control:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Reliability > REL 03. How do you design your workload service architecture?

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Skip`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Skip` `True` `False`

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Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/turbot#/control/categories/other

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel03MonolithSoaMicroservice

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel03MonolithSoaMicroservice") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel03MonolithSoaMicroservice'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel03MonolithSoaMicroservice'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel03MonolithSoaMicroservice"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel03MonolithSoaMicroservice"