Cram Deck Flashcards
Operational Excellence Pillar
- Support development and run workloads effectively
- Gain insight into workload operations
- Continuously improve processes and procedures to deliver business value
Best practices for operational excellence pillar?
- Perform operations as code
- Make frequent, small, reversible changes
- Refine operations procedures frequently
- Anticipate failure
- Learn from all operational failures
Security Pillar
The ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
Best practices for security:
- 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
Reliability Pillar
The 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.
Best practices for reliability pillar?
- Automatically recover from failure
- Test recovery procedures
- Scale horizontally to increase aggregate workload
availability - Stop guessing capacity
- Manage change in automation
Performance Efficiency Pillar
The ability to use computing resources efficiently to
meet system requirements, and to maintain that
efficiency as demand changes and technologies
evolve
Sustainability Well Arch Pillar
The ability to increase efficiency across all components of a workload by maximizing the benefits from the provisioned resources.
Best practices for Performance Efficiency Pillar?
- Democratize advanced technologies
- Go global in minutes
- Use serverless architectures
- Experiment more often
- Consider mechanical sympathy
Cost Optimization Pillar and best practices?
- The ability to run systems to deliver business value
at the lowest price point - Best practices for cost optimization:
- Implement Cloud Financial Management
- Adopt a consumption model
- Measure overall efficiency
- Stop spending money on undifferentiated heavy
lifting - Analyze and attribute expenditure
Envision
identify measurable business outcomes that will help the business progress during the transformation journey
AWS CAF recommends four iterative and incremental cloud transformation phases:
– Envision
– Align
– Scale
– Launch
Align
identify capability gaps and cross-organizational dependencies
Launch
delivering pilots in production and demonstrating incremental business value rather than identifying capability gaps
Scale
expanding pilots and business value to the desired scale of your company, as well as ensuring the realization and sustainability of cloud-related business benefits
