Pillars of WAF

Question 1

Operational Excellence

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Security

Answer 2

The security pillar describes how to take advantage of cloud technologies to protect data, systems, and assets in a way that can improve your security posture.

Question 3

Reliability

Answer 3

The reliability pillar encompasses the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it’s expected to. This includes the ability to operate and test the workload through its total lifecycle. This paper provides in-depth, best practice guidance for implementing reliable workloads on AWS.

Question 4

Performance Efficiency

Answer 4

The ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.

Question 5

Cost Optimization

Answer 5

The ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point.

Question 6

Sustainability

Answer 6

The ability to continually improve sustainability impacts by reducing energy consumption and increasing efficiency across all components of a workload by maximizing the benefits from the provisioned resources and minimizing the total resources required.

Question 7

Perform Operations As Code

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Operational Excellence

Question 8

Make frequent, small, reversible changes

Answer 8

Operational Excellence

Question 9

Refine operations procedures frequently

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Operational Excellence

Question 10

Anticipate Failure

Answer 10

Operational Excellence

Question 11

Learn from all operational failures

Answer 11

Operational Excellence

Question 12

Implement a strong identity foundation

Answer 12

Security

Question 13

Enable traceability

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Security

Question 14

Apply security at all layers

Answer 14

Security

Question 15

Automate security best practices

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Security

Question 16

Protect data in transit and at rest

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Security

Question 17

Keep people away from data

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Security

Question 18

Prepare for security events

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Security

Question 19

Automatically recover from failure

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Reliability

Question 20

Test recovery procedures

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Reliability

Question 21

Scale horizontally to increase aggregate workload availability

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Reliability

Question 22

Stop guessing capacity

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Reliability

Question 23

Manage change in automation

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Reliability

Question 24

Democratize advanced technologies

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Performance Efficiency

Question 25

Go global in minutes

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Performance Efficiency

Question 26

Use serverless architectures

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Performance Efficiency

Question 27

Experiment more often

Answer 27

Performance Efficiency

Question 28

Consider mechanical sympathy

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Performance Efficiency

Question 29

Implement Cloud Financial Management

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Cost Optimization

Question 30

Adopt a consumption model

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Cost Optimization

Question 31

Measure overall efficiency

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Cost Optimization

Question 32

Stop spending money on undifferentiated heavy lifting

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Cost Optimization

Question 33

Analyze and attribute expenditure

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Cost Optimization

Question 34

Understand your impact

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Sustainability

Question 35

Establish sustainability goals

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Sustainability

Question 36

Maximize utilization

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Sustainability

Question 37

Anticipate and adopt new, more efficient hardware and software offerings

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Sustainability

Question 38

Use managed services

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Sustainability

Question 39

Reduce the downstream impact of your cloud workloads

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Sustainability