Module 9

Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Operational Excellence Pillar

• Deliver business value

• Automating changes

• Responding to events

• Perform operations as code

• Make frequent, small, reversible changes

• Refine operations procedures frequently

• Anticipate failure

• Learn from all operational events and failures

Security Pillar

Principles

• 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

• Automatically recover from failure

• Test recovery procedures

• Scale horizontally to increase aggregate workload availability

• Stop guessing capacity

• Manage change in automation

Performance Efficiency pillar

Principles

• Democratize advanced technologies

• Go global in minutes

• Use serverless architectures

• Experiment more often

• Consider mechanical sympathy

Cost Optimization Pillar

Reliability

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