AWS Well-Architected Framework Flashcards
What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a set of strategies and best practices to follow when designing architecture so you can measure your designs against AWS best practices
Which are the AWS Well-Architected pillars?
- Operational Excellence
- Security
- Performance efficiency
- Reliability
- Cost-optimization
Describe the operational excellence pillar
The operational excellence pillar is the ability to run and monitor systems to continuosly deliver business value and improve supporting processes and procedures
What are the focus areas of the Operational Excellence pillar?
-Organization
-Prepare
-Operate (Ensuring your team has the skillset to operate your workload)
-Evolve (Improving the execution of your operations over time)
What are the focus areas of the Security pillar?
-Data Confidentiality
-Infrastructure Protection (Guarantees system is protected against unauthorized access)
-Identity and Access Management (IAM)
-Detective controls (Detecting security events)
-Incident Response
Describe the Reliability pillar
The capacity to recover from infrastructure or system failures, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand and mitigate disruptions due to transient network issues or misconfigurations
What are the focus areas of the Reliability pillar?
- Foundations (Limites de serviços da AWS e da solução)
- Change (auto-scaling e detecção de mudanças)
- Failure management (Foco em backups e estratégias de recuperação)
- Workload Architecture
What are the focus areas of the Performance Efficiency pillar?
-Selection (Selecting the right resources for the task)
-Review (Reviewing choices against new technology released)
-Monitoring
-Trade-offs
What are the focus areas of the Cost-Efficiency pillar?
-Cost effective resources
-Match demand and supply
-Expenditure Awareness
-Optimizing Overtime (Taking advantage of new technologies or features)
What are the key AWS services for the Operational Excellence pillar? Also mention which area they pertain to.
-Cloudformation (Key Service)
-AWS Config (Prepare)
-AWS Cloudwatch (Operate)
-AWS Elasticsearch (Evolve)
What are some AWS services useful for Secuity Operations in the cloud?
- AWS Accounts
- AWS Organizations
- AWS Control Tower
What AWS Service can you use to automate responses to security events?
AWS Config
What is the key service for the AWS Reliability pillar?
AWS Cloudwatch
What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Reliability pillar for the Foundations area?
- VPC
- IAM
- AWS Shield
- AWS Trusted Advisor
What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Reliability pillar for the Change area?
- Cloudwatch
- Cloudtrail
- AWS Config
- AWS Auto-scaling
What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Reliability pillar for the Failure management area?
-Cloudformation
-S3
-Glacier
-AWS KMS
The use of Auto-Scaling is a practice that matches which pillars of the well architected framework?
The Reliability (Change area) and Cost-effectiveness (match supply and demand area) pillars.
Having high availability on a solution would be related to what area on the Reliability Pillar of the AWS Well-Architected framework?
The Foundations area
What is the key service for the AWS Performance Efficiency pillar?
AWS Cloudwatch
What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Performance Efficiency pillar for the Selection area? (Compute, Storage, Database, Network)
- S3
- EBS
- EC2
- Auto-Scaling
- RDS
- DynamoDB
- Route 53
- VPC
- AWS Direct Connect
What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Performance Efficiency pillar for the Review area?
There are no AWS services for the review area, one has to pay attention to the news and reas the AWS Blog
What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Performance Efficiency pillar for the Monitoring area?
- Cloudwatch
- AWS Kinesis
- AWS SQS
- Lambda (To execute based on Cloudwatch)
What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Performance Efficiency pillar for the Trade-Off area?
- Amazon Cloudfront
- Amazon Snowball
- Amazon Elasticache
- Amazon RDS
A Lamba execution times out, with an alarm being triggered on cloudwatch that creates a message on an SQS Queue logging this event. What area of the Well-Architected Performance Efficiency pillar does this pertain to?
Monitoring
Using Proximity and Caching pertains to which area of the Well-Architected Performance Efficiency pillar?
Trade-offs
The use of tags to control costs (AWS shows the aggregated costs for all resources with that tag) pertains to which are of the Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar?
Expenditure Awareness
What is the key service for the AWS Cost Optimization pillar?
Cost Allocation Tags and Cost Explorer
What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar for the Cost Effective Resources area?
-Reserved Instances
-EC2 spot instances
-Amazon cost explorer
What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar for the Match Supply and Demand area?
- Auto-Scaling
What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar for the Expenditure Awareness area?
-Cloudwatch
-SNS
-Cost Allocation Tags
-Cost Explorer
What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar for the Optimizing Over Time area?
- AWS Trusted Advisor
Addictionally, you can also check the AWS blog.
