Amazon Web Services

AWS Well-Architected Framework

Definition

AWS's best-practices framework for designing secure, resilient, efficient, and cost-effective cloud architectures. It is structured around 6 pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

Exam context

A recurring question on CLF-C02 and SAA-C03. You should memorize the 6 pillars. There is an AWS Well-Architected Tool for evaluating workloads. Question: which pillar addresses recovery from failures? Reliability.

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