Operational Excellence Pillar

The operational excellence pillar focuses on running and monitoring systems to deliver business value, and continually improving processes and procedures.

The Operational Excellence pillar includes 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.

Key Areas

The Operational Excellence pillar includes the following key areas:

  • Organization - How teams are structured and how they collaborate
  • Prepare - Design for operations and understand workload health
  • Operate - Understand workload health and achieve operational success
  • Evolve - Learn, share, and continuously improve

Questions

The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a set of questions that allows you to review an existing or proposed architecture. It also provides a set of AWS best practices for each pillar.

OPS01 - How do you determine what your priorities are?

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OPS02 - How do you structure your organization to support your business outcomes?

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OPS03 - How does your organizational culture support your business outcomes?

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OPS04 - How do you design your workload so that you can understand its state?

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OPS05 - How do you reduce defects, ease remediation, and improve flow into production?

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OPS06 - How do you mitigate deployment risks?

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OPS07 - How do you know that you are ready to support a workload?

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OPS08 - How do you understand the health of your workload?

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OPS09 - How do you understand the health of your operations?

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OPS10 - How do you manage workload and operations events?

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OPS11 - How do you evolve operations?

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AWS Services for Operational Excellence

AWS CloudFormation

Provides a common language to model and provision AWS and third-party resources in your cloud environment.

AWS Config

Enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.

AWS CloudTrail

Enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.

Amazon CloudWatch

Monitors your AWS resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time.

AWS Systems Manager

Gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS.


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