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In this episode, we cover the following topics:
- Pillars in depth
- Performance Efficiency
- "Ability to use resources efficiently to meet system requirements and maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technology evolves"
- Design principles
- Easy to try new advanced technologies (by letting AWS manage them, instead of standing them up yourself)
- Go global in minutes
- Use serverless architectures
- Experiment more often
- Mechanical sympathy (use the technology approach that aligns best to what you are trying to achieve)
- Key service: CloudWatch
- Focus areas
- Selection
- Services: EC2, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, Auto Scaling, S3, VPC, Route53, DirectConnect
- Review
- Services: AWS Blog, AWS What's New
- Monitoring
- Services: CloudWatch, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS
- Tradeoffs
- Services: CloudFront, ElastiCache, Snowball, RDS (read replicas)
- Best practices
- Selection
- Choose appropriate resource types
- Compute, storage, database, networking
- Trade Offs
- Cost Optimization
- "Ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point"
- Design principles
- Adopt a consumption model (only pay for what you use)
- Measure overall efficiency
- Stop spending money on data center operations
- Analyze and attribute expenditures
- Use managed services to reduce TCO
- Key service: AWS Cost Explorer (with cost allocation tags)
- Focus areas
- Expenditure awareness
- Services: Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, CloudWatch, SNS
- Cost-effective resources
- Services: Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, Cost Explorer
- Matching supply and demand
- Optimizing over time
- Services: AWS Blog, AWS What's New, Trusted Advisor
- Key points
- Use Trusted Advisor to find ways to save $$$
- The Well-Architected Review
- Centered around the question "Are you well architected?"
- The Well-Architected review provides a consistent approach to review workload against current AWS best practices and gives advice on how to architect for the cloud
- Benefits of the review
- Build and deploy faster
- Lower or mitigate risks
- Make informed decisions
- Learn AWS best practices
- The AWS Well-Architected Tool
- Cloud-based service available from the AWS console
- Provides consistent process for you to review and measure your architecture using the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Helps you:
- Improvement plan
- Based on identified high and medium risk topics
- Canned list of suggested action items to address each risk topic
- Milestones
- Makes a read-only snapshot of completed questions and answers
- Best practices
- Save milestone after initially completing workload review
- Then, whenever you make large changes to your workload architecture, perform a subsequent review and save as a new milestone
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The Shadow Gallery by Roy England
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