The legacy Well-Architected Framework was organized around three capabilities — Trusted, Easy, and Adaptable — each with its own sub-pillars. The current framework reorganizes that guidance into five pillars. This page maps each legacy sub-pillar to the single file where its guidance is now most directly addressed, so you can jump straight from an existing concept to its current home.
Each destination links to a live page. The new framework splits several sub-pillars across more than one pillar, so we link the primary (most-addressed) home and call out any secondary homes in the notes.
Trusted
| Sub-Pillar |
Now Most Addressed In |
Notes |
| Secure |
Trust |
Organizational, session, and data security; expanded with Agentforce agent-user authentication and data exposure. |
| Reliable |
Reliability |
Availability and scalability; adds Scale Center. Performance optimization and some aspects of data-lifecycle move to Resource and Cost Optimization; monitoring to Operational Excellence. |
| Compliant |
Fairness |
Ethical standards, AI fairness, accessibility, and privacy rights. Legal adherence and data residency stay in Trust. |
Easy
Adaptable
How to read this map
- "Now Most Addressed In" is the single file where the bulk of that sub-pillar's guidance now lives — the best first click. It's not the only place the topic appears.
- Splits are called out in Notes when a sub-pillar was deliberately divided across pillars (for example, Legal Adherence: infrastructure/security in Trust, personal rights in Fairness).
- Engaging (Streamlined and Helpful) contributes its equity-relevant guidance to Fairness (responsive/form-factor equivalence, forms cognitive load, and deliberate in-app guidance).
