The 8 Pillars
A vendor-neutral structure that covers every critical dimension of cloud architecture quality — from security and cost to digital sovereignty and agentic operations.
All 8 pillars at a glance
Every pillar is a lens for making better cloud decisions. Explore the overview or dive into the full documentation.
Security
Controls, threat modeling, policy-as-code, and secure defaults across every layer.
Cost Optimization
FinOps, cost transparency, budget guardrails, and right-sizing.
Performance Efficiency
Performance as a product: architecture, scaling, latency, and efficiency.
Sustainability
Efficiency, resource consumption, and sustainable platform decisions.
Sovereign
Data sovereignty, compliance, vendor neutrality, and exit strategies. The first plus of WAF++.
Agentic
AI-assisted architecture reviews, autonomous remediation, and policy-aware agents. The second plus of WAF++.
How to use the 8 pillars
Evaluate every new platform or cloud architecture against all eight pillars before go-live.
Build golden paths, guardrails, and default configurations on top of the pillars.
Use the pillars as a governance reference mapped to GDPR, BSI C5, ISO 27001, and SOC 2.
Ready to design with all 8 pillars?
Dive into the documentation, validate your infrastructure with WAFPass, or join the community to contribute controls and governance feedback.