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How can an organization use the Well-Architected Framework's specialized lenses to evaluate workloads against industry specific or technology specific best practices beyond the general six pillars?
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Beyond the general Well-Architected Framework, AWS provides specialized lenses tailored to specific technology domains, such as the Serverless Lens, the Machine Learning Lens, and the SaaS Lens, along with lenses addressing specific industries, each adding additional guiding questions and best practices highly relevant to that particular context, letting an organization conduct a more deeply relevant review than the general framework alone would provide for a workload with very specific architectural characteristics.
aws wellarchitected create-workload --workload-name my-serverless-app --lenses wellarchitected serverlessReal-world example A company building an entirely serverless application applies the Serverless Lens alongside the standard Well-Architected Framework during their review, surfacing specific guidance around Lambda cold starts and event driven architecture patterns that the general framework alone would not have addressed as deeply.