AWS Resident Architect will advise Customer on general best practices for architecting on AWS, which may include general best practices applicable to Customer’s identified use case(s) on AWS (Containers, Cloud Native Design).  AWS Resident Architect may advise and assist Customers with:

1. General review of conceptual architectural models on AWS, which may include review of Customer’s constraints and dependencies, suggest to Customer potential alternatives and help Customer build an associated evaluation criteria.  
2. Developing consistent governance and approaches to meet compliance requirements, while enabling users to deploy approved IT services.
3. Developing mechanisms to track cost, performance, security, compliance and operational status at the application level.
4. Building tools and automation to manage pre-approved IT services for use on AWS.
5. Developing secure, repeatable, and federated control of access to data, tooling, and compute power.
6. Automating the creation of baseline research setups to include simplifying data access and providing price transparency.
7. Designing and developing management tools for registry, orchestration, and compute. To include developing mechanisms to securely store and manage container images, orchestration that manages when and where containers run, and flexible compute engines to power containers for either Docker or Kubernetes.