Architecting and Ecosystems Flashcards
1
Q
6 Pillars
A
- Operational Excellence
- Security
- Reliability
- Performance Efficiency
- Cost Optimization
- Sustainability
2
Q
Operational Excellence
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- All your operations should be code (IaaS, PaaS)
- Annotate documentation
- Make frequent and small reversible changes
- Refine operations procedures frequently
- Anticipate failure
- Learn from all these failures
3
Q
Security
A
- Strong identity foundation
- Enable traceability (Logs and Metrics)
- Apply security at all layers (Edge->VPC->Subnet->ELB->EC2->OS-Application)
- Automate security best practices
- Protect data in transit and at rest
- Keep people away from data
- Prepare for security events
4
Q
Reliability
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- Test recovery procedures
- Automatically recover from failure
- Scale horizontally
- Stop guessing capacity (use auto scaling)
- Use automation for changes in infrastructure
5
Q
Performance Efficiency
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- Use advanced technologies
- Go global in minutes
- Use serverless architecture
- Experiment more often
- Mechanical sympathy - Be aware of all AWS services
6
Q
Cost Optimization
A
- Pay only what you use
- Measure overall efficiency - Use CloudWatch
- Stop spending on data center operations
- Analyze and attribute expenditure - Use Tags
- Use managed services to reduce cost of ownership
7
Q
Sustainability
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- Understand your impact
- Establish sustainability goals
- Maximize utilization
- Anticipate and adopt more efficient h/w or s/w
- Use managed services
- Reduce downstream imapct of cloud workloads
8
Q
AWS Well Architected Tool
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AWS tool to review the architechture againt the 6 pillars
9
Q
AWS CAF (Cloud adoption framework)
A
- White paper that helps you to build and execute a plan for digital transformation using AWS
- It groups the capabilities under
Business - Business
- People
- Governance
Technical - Platform
- Security
- Operations
10
Q
AWS CAF Transformation Domains
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- Technology
- Process
- Organization
- Product
11
Q
AWS CAF Transformation Phases
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- Envision (Demostrate the benefits of cloud to business, foundation for Digi Tran)
- Align (Capability gaps across 6 CAF perpectives and create a action plan)
- Launch (Build and deliver pilot in production)
- Scale (Expand pilot initiatives)
12
Q
AWS Right Sizing
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Process of matching the instance type and size to your workload performance
and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost
-CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor
13
Q
AWS IQ
A
Help to quickly find a professional to help you with your AWS projects
14
Q
AWS re:Post
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Community Forum. AWS managed Q&A service
15
Q
AWS Managed Service
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AWS provides a team of AWS exeprts to help you manage and operate your infrastructure for security, reliability and availability
