AWS The Five Pillars of the Framework Flashcards
What are the Five Pillars of the Framework?
- Operational Excellence
- Security
- Reliability
- Performance Efficiency
- Cost Optimization
What does the Operational Excellence Pillar include?
The ability to support development and run
workloads effectively, gain insight into their operations, and to continuously improve
supporting processes and procedures to deliver business value.
What are the 5 design principles of Operational Excellence?
- Perform operations as code
- Make frequent, small, reversible changes
- Refine operations procedures frequently
- anticipate failure
- learn from all operational failures
What are the 4 best practice areas for Operational Excellence in the Cloud?
- Organization
- Prepare
- Operate
- Evolve
What does the Security Pillar encompass?
The ability to protect data,
systems, and assets to take advantage of cloud technologies to improve your security.
What are the 7 design principles of the Security Pillar?
- implement a strong identity foundation
- enable traceability
- apply security at all layers
- automate security best practices
- protect data in transit and at rest
- keep people away from data
- prepare for security events
What are the six best practice areas for Security?
- Security
- Identity and Access Management
- Detection
- Infrastructure Protection
- Data Protection
- Incident Response
What does the Reliability Pillar encompass?
The ability of a work-load perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it’s expected to.
What are the five design principles of the Reliability Pillar?
- automatically recover from failure
- test recovery procedures
- scale horizontally to increase aggregate workload availability
- stop guessing capacity
- manage change in automation
What are the four best practice areas for Reliability in the cloud?
- foundations
- workload architecture
- change management
- failure management
What does the Performance Efficiency Pillar include?
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 5 design principles of the Performance Efficiency Pillar?
- democratize advanced technologies
- go global in minutes
- use serverless architectures
- experiment more often
- consider mechanical sympathy
What are the 4 best practice areas for Performance Efficiency?
- selection
- review
- monitoring
- tradeoffs
What does the Cost Optimization Pillar include?
The ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point
What are the 5 design principles?
- implement cloud financial management
- adopt a consumption model
- measure overall efficiency
- stop spending money on undifferentiated heavy lifting
- analyze and attribute expenditure
