5 Pillars of AWS ARCH

Question 1

What are the 5 foundational pillars for architecting an AWS environment?

Answer 1

1. Operational excellence
2. Security
3. Reliability
4. Performance efficiency
5. Cost optimization

Question 2

What is the Operational Excellence pillar?

Answer 2

The ability to run and monitor systems to deliver biz value and support continued processes and procedures.

Question 3

What is the Security pillar?

Answer 3

The ability to protect information/systems/assets while delivering biz value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.

Question 4

What is the Reliability pillar?

Answer 4

The ability of the system to:
○ recover from infrastructure or service disruption
○ Dynamically scale resources to meet demand
○ Mitigate any disruptions

Question 5

What is the Performance Efficiency pillar?

Answer 5

The ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet the system requirements, and maintain that efficiency as demand changes/evolves (scale up/down).

Question 6

What is the Cost Optimization pillar?

Answer 6

The ability to avoid or minimize unneeded costs or resources that are being used sub-optimally.