Lecture 19: AWS architecting & Ecosystem Flashcards
What are the cloud design principles?
- Being scalable
- Disposable resources
- Automation
- Loose coupling
- Think in services not servers
What are the 6 pillars of well architected framework ?
- Operational excellence
- Security
- Reliability
- Performance efficiency
- Cost optimization
- Sustainability
______ includes the ability to run & monitor systems to deliver business value & to continually improve supporting process and procedures
Operational excellence
What are the design principles related to operational excellence?
- Perform operations as code
- Annotate documentation
- Make frequent, small, reversible changes
- Refine operations procedure frequently
- Anticipates failure
- Learn from Al operational failure
What are AWS services you can use to help with the prepare stage in operational excellence?
- Cloudformation
- AWS config
_________ includes the ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessment and mitigation strategies
Security
What are the design principles related to security?
- Implement a strong identity foundation
- Enable traceability
- Apply security to all layers
- Automate security best practice
- Protect data in transit & at rest
- Lee wools away from data
- Prepare for security events
_________ is the ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service disruptions, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand, & mitigate disruptions such as mid configurations or transient network issues (make sure your system runs no matter what)
Reliability
What are the design principles related to reliability?
- Test recovery procedures
- Automatically recover from failure
- Scale horizontally to increase aggregate system as availability
- Stop guessing capacity
- Manage change in automation
________ includes the a Ulithi to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes & technologies evolve (all about adapting and providing the best performance)
Performance efficiency
What are the design principles related to performance efficiency?
- Democratize advance technologies
- Go global in minutes
- Use serverless architectures
- Experiment more often
- Mechanical sympathy
________ includes the ability to run system to deliver business value at the lowest price point
Cost optimization
What are the design principles related to cost optimization?
- Adopt a consumption mode
- Measure overall efficiency
- Stop spending money on data center operations
- Analyze & attribute expenditure
- Use managed & application level services to reduce cost of ownership
________ focuses on minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads
Sustainability
What are the design principles related to sustainability?
- Understand your impact
- Establish sustainability goals
- Maximize utilization
- Anticipate and adopt new, more efficient hardware & software offerings
- Use managed services
- Reduce the downstream impact of your cloud workloads
__________ is a free tool to review your architecture against the 6 Pillars well architected framework & adopt architectural best practices
AWS well-architected tool
_________ helps you build & then execute a comprehensive plan for your digital transformation through innovative use of AWS
AWS cloud adoption framework (CAF)
AWS CAF groups its capabilities into what six perspectives?
- Business
- People
- Governance
- Platform
- Security
- Operations
_______ helps ensure that your cloud investments accelerate your digital transformation ambitions & business outcomes
Business perspective
_______ serves as a bridge between technology and business
People perspective
_______ helps you orchestrate your cloud initiatives while maximin organizational benefits & minimizing transformation related risks
Governance perspective
__________ helps you build an enterprise -grade, scalable hybrid cloud platform, modernize existing workloads, and implement new cloud native solutions
Platform perspective
_________ helps you achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data & cloud workloads
Security perspective
_________ helps ensure that your cloud services are delivered at a level that meets the need of your business
Operations perspective
What are the four transformation domains related to AWS CAF?
- Technology - using cloud to migrate & modernize legacy infrastructure, applications, data & analytics platforms
- Process - digitizing, automating, and optimizing your business operations
- Organization- reimagining your operating model
- Product - reimagine your business model by creating new value propositions
What are the 4 transformation phases related to AWS CAF?
- Envision - making sure you have inside business opportunities
- Align - align CAF perspectives to find gaps & have an action plan
- Launch - build & deliver pilot initiatives in production & demonstrate incremental business value
- Scale - expand pilot initiatives to the desired scale realizing the desired business benefits
EC2 has many instance types, but choosing the most powerful instance type isn’t the best choice bye cause the cloud is _________
Elastic
________ is the process of matching instance types & sizes to your workload performance & capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost
Right sizing
It’s important to right size when?
- Before a cloud migration
- Continuously after the cloud onboarding process (requirements change over time)
________ is a web portal that contain the most frequent & common questions & requests
AWS Knowledge Center
______ is used to quickly find a professional help you with your AWS projects
AWS IQ
_________ is an AWS-managed Q& A service offering crowd -sourced expert -reviewed answers to your technical questions about AWS that replaces the original AWS forums
AWS re:Post
Questions from AWS premium support customer that don’t receive a response from the community in the AWS re:Post are password on to __________
AWS support engineers
________ a team of people that provides infrastructure and application support on AWS
AWS Managed services (AMS)
AMS offers a team of _________ who manage & operate your infrastructure for security, reliability, and availability
AWS experts
_________ is a digital catalog with thousands of software listing from independent software vendors
AWS Marketplace
__________ provides hardware, connectivity, and software
APN Technology (APN= AWS Partner Network)
_________ are professional services firm to help build on AWS
APN Consulting Partners
__________ find who can help you learn AWS
APN training partners
__________ AWS competencies are granted to APN partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency & proven customer success in specialized solution areas
AWS competency program
__________ helps partners become better partners
AWS navigate program
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