Architecting and Ecosytem Flashcards
AWS Cloud Best Practices - Design Principles
Scalability Disposbale Resources - servers should be disposable Automation Loos Coupling Services not Servers
What is operational Excellence
The ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to continually improve supporting processes and procedures
What are the Design Principles of Operational Excellence
Perform operations as code Annotate documentation Make frequent, small, reversible changes Refine operations procedures frequently Anticipate failure Learn from al operational failures
What is the second pillar
Security - the ability to protect information systems and assets while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies
What are the design principles of Security pillar
implement a strong identity foundation Enable traceability Apply security at all layers Automate security best practices Protect data in transit from data keep people away from data Prepare for security events
What is the 3rd pillar
Reliability - Ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service disruptions, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand and mitigate disruptions such as misconfigurations or transient network issues
What are the design principles of reliability
Test recovery procedures Automatically recover from failure Scale horizontallt to increase aggregate system avalability Stop guessing capacity manage change in automation
What is the 4th pillar
Performance Efficiency - the ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve
What are the design principles of Performance Efficiency
Democratize advanced technologies Go global in minutes Use serverless architectures Experiment more often Mechanical sympathy
What is the last pillar
Cost Optimization - Includes the ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point
What are the design Principles of Cost Optimization
Adopt a consumption mode
Measure overall efficiency
Stop spending money on data center operations
Analyze and attribute expenditure
Use managed and application-level services to reduce the cost of ownership
What is AWS Well-Architected Tool
Free tool to review your architectures against the 5 pillars Well-Architected Framework and adopt best practices
What is AWS Right Sizing
the process of matching instance types and sizes to your workload performance
and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost
What is AWS Ecosystem
- Free resources Blogs Forums Whitepapers and guides Quick starts Solutions
What is AWS Marketplace
Digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendores
