AWS Well Architected

Question 1

What are the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well Architected Framework

Answer 1

Operational Excellence
Security
Reliability
Performance Efficiency
Cost Optimization
Sustainability

Question 2

What does it mean when you say the 6 pillars of the well architected framework are a synergy?

Answer 2

It means they work together. If you improve your operational excellence, you will most likely also improve your cost optimization.
And if you are more sustainable, you will also most likely have a higher performance efficiency. Etc.

Question 3

What is AWS Well Architected Tool?

Answer 3

A tool to review your architectures against the 6 pillars, and to help you adopt the architectures best practices.

Its like a questionaire that you answer based on how you work and your infra is, and based on the answer results aws tells you the risks you currently have and gives your recommendations of changes to make.

Question 4

What is AWS Trusted Advisor?

Answer 4

It’s analyzes your infrastructure overall and gives you recommendations that you should change stuff. For example:
“You have 2 public EBS Snapshots”

There are 6 categories that Trusted Advisor analyzes stuff on:
Cost Optimization
Performance
Security
Fault Tolerance
Service Limits
Operational Excellence

For all the checks you need business or enterprise support plan.

Question 5

Which AWS Service analyzes your AWS account and gives recommendations for cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits?

Answer 5

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices. It evaluates your account by using checks. These checks identify ways to optimize your AWS infrastructure, improve security and performance, reduce costs, and monitor service quotas.