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Third pillar – performance efficiency In some respects, over-provisioning resources are just as bad as not having enough capacity to handle your workloads. Launching a constantly idle or almost idle instance is a sign of bad design. Resources should not be at full capacity and should be utilized efficiently. AWS provides various features and services to assist in creating architectures with high efficiency. However, we are still responsible for ensuring

Fifth pillar – operational excellence The operational excellence of a workload should be measured across these dimensions: The ideal way to optimize these metrics is to standardize and automate the management of these workloads. To achieve operational excellence, AWS recommends these principles: You can find the operational excellence pillar checklist from Well-Architected Tool below with 11 questions covering multiple aspects to make sure your architecture is optimized to run in

AWS Well-Architected Lenses As of April-2022, AWS has launched 13 well-architected lenses addressing architecting needs specific to technology workload and industry domain. The followings are the important available lenses for AWS’s well-architected framework: Above, we have covered some of the important lenses, but I will encourage you to explore other industry focus well-architected lenses such as Game, Streaming Media, Finance, and workload-specific lenses, including SAP, SaaS, HPC (High-Performance Computing), and

Building credibility and getting certified It is hard to argue that the Cloud is not an important technology shift. We have established that AWS is the clear market and thought leader in the cloud space. Comparing the Cloud to an earthquake, we could say that it started slowly as a slight rumbling that started getting louder and louder, and we are now at a point where the walls are shaking,

Building AWS Cloud Career for non-tech You may often see it as a very tech-savvy job for the Cloud. However, that is not always the case. Several Cloud roles don’t require deep technical knowledge; just a basic understanding will get your foot in the door to start a cloud career. For example, anyone from a sales and marketing background can thrive in cloud marketing, Cloud business development, or cloud sales

AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer Path DevOps is a critical engineering function that makes the development team more agile by automating the deployment pipeline. Automation is key to adopting Cloud and using its full potential, where DevOps engineer plays an essential role. Followings AWS certification can help you navigate the DevOps path in the AWS cloud. AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate This certification will demonstrate to potential employers and clients

AWS Specialty Solutions Architect Path While generalist solutions architects design overall workload, they need to dive deep into certain areas where more in-depth knowledge is required. In that case, specialist solutions architects come to the rescue; they provide their expertise to apply best practices for a specific domain such as security, networking, analytics, machine learning, etc. You have seen in Well-Architected tool sections where AWS has domain-specific lenses to optimize

AWS Certified SAP – Specialty SAP specialty is a brand new certification exam that anyone can attempt starting April-2022. AWS SAP specialty certification is for SAP professionals to demonstrate their knowledge in the AWS cloud. It shows your ability to implement, migrate and support SAP workload in AWS using AWS’s well-architected framework. While AWS continues adding new certifications to validate your cloud skill, they also retire old certifications that are

Getting Started in AWS AWS launched a skill builder portal (https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/) which enhances the version of AWS’s training portal. AWS Skill builder has thousands of self-paced digital training and a learning path, as shown below. You can pick any learning path you need and explore related digital courses. If you want classroom training, those are available in the AWS training portal; however, those may come with a price. AWS provides

Some frequently asked questions about the AWS certifications While preparing for certifications, you may have several questions like where to start and how to finish. The following section will list frequently asked questions that often come to mind. What is the best way to get certified? Before we get to the best way to get certified, let’s look at the worst way. Amazon offers extremely comprehensive documentation. You can find