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Well Architected Framework: Operational Excellence

Explore how to achieve operational excellence within the AWS Well Architected Framework. Learn to prepare, operate, and evolve workloads by applying best practices that enhance business outcomes, automate change execution, and continuously improve using AWS tools like Config and CloudWatch.

Operational Excellence

  1. Prescribes operational practices and procedures used to manage production workloads.
  2. This includes how planned changes are executed as well as responses to unexpected operational events.
  3. Change execution and response should be automated.

Best Practices

There are three best practice areas for operational excellence in the cloud:

  1. Prepare
  2. Operate
  3. Evolve

Operations teams need to understand their business and customer needs so they can effectively and efficiently support business outcomes. Operations create and use ...