Architecting and Ecosystems

Question 1

6 Pillars

Answer 1

Operational Excellence
Security
Reliability
Performance Efficiency
Cost Optimization
Sustainability
(CORPSS)

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Operational Excellence

Question 3

• 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.
  Which Pillar?

Answer 3

Security

Question 4

Test recovery procedures
Automatically recover from failure
Scale horizontally
Stop guessing capacity (use auto scaling)
Use automation for changes in infrastructure

Which pillar?

Answer 4

Reliability

Question 5

Use advanced technologies
Go global in minutes
Use serverless architecture
Experiment more often
Mechanical sympathy - Be aware of all AWS services

Which pillar?

Answer 5

Performance Efficiency

Question 6

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

Which pillar?

Answer 6

Cost Optimization

Question 7

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

Which pillar?

Answer 7

Sustainability

Question 8

AWS tool to review the architechture againt the 6 pillars

Answer 8

AWS Well Architected Tool

Question 9

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

Answer 9

AWS CAF (Cloud adoption framework)

Question 10

Technology
Process
Organization
Product
(TPOP)

Answer 10

AWS CAF Transformation Domains

Question 11

• 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)

Answer 11

AWS CAF Transformation Phases

Question 12

Process of matching the instance type and size to your workload performanceand capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost-CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor

Answer 12

AWS Right Sizing

Question 13

Help to quickly find a professional to help you with your AWS projects

Answer 13

AWS IQ

Question 14

Community Forum. AWS managed Q&A service

Answer 14

AWS re:Post

Question 15

AWS provides a team of AWS exeprts to help you manage and operate your infrastructure for security, reliability and availability

Answer 15

AWS Managed Service