The cloud architecture framework outlines five key pillars: operational excellence, security privacy and compliance, reliability, cost optimization, and performance optimization. Each pillar emphasizes strategies and best practices for effectively managing cloud resources, ensuring security, enhancing reliability, aligning costs with business value, and optimizing performance for improved efficiency and customer satisfaction. The framework advocates for automation, data-driven insights, and continuous monitoring to adapt to evolving cloud needs.

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2. Agenda
• Operational excellence
• Security, privacy, and compliance
• Reliability
• Cost optimization
• Performance optimization
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3. Operational excellence
o Operational excellence in the cloud involves designing,
implementing, and managing cloud solutions that provide
value, performance, security, and reliability.
o The recommendations in this pillar help you to continuously
improve and adapt workloads to meet the dynamic and ever-
evolving needs in the cloud.
o To achieve operational excellence, you should embrace
automation, orchestration, and data-driven insights
o Automation helps to eliminate toil. It also streamlines and
builds guardrails around repetitive tasks. Orchestration helps
to coordinate complex processes. Data-driven insights enable
evidence-based decision-making
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4. Security, privacy, and
compliance
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o Secure options for data in transit, and default encryption for
data at rest.
o Built-in security features for cloud products and services.
o A global infrastructure that's designed for geo-redundancy,
with security controls throughout the information-processing
lifecycle.
o Automation capabilities that use infrastructure as code (IaC)
and configuration guardrails.
o Data and systems are protected through multiple layered
defenses using policies and controls that are configured across
IAM, encryption, networking, detection, logging, and
monitoring.
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5. Reliability
o Measurable reliability goals that you promptly correct whenever deviations
occur
o Design patterns for the following:
• Scalability
• High availability
• Disaster recovery
• Automated change management
o Components that self-heal (have the ability to remediate issues without
manual interventions)
o Hands-free operation such as service runs with minimal manual work,
cognitive operator load, and rapid failure detection and mitigation
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6. Cost optimization
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o Align cloud spending with business value: Ensure that your
cloud resources deliver measurable business value by aligning
IT spending with business objectives.
o Foster a culture of cost awareness: Ensure that people across
your organization consider the cost impact of their decisions
and activities, and ensure that they have access to the cost
information required to make informed decisions.
o Optimize resource usage: Provision only the resources that
you need, and pay only for the resources that you consume.
o Optimize continuously: Continuously monitor your cloud
resource usage and costs, and proactively make adjustments
as needed to optimize your spending. This approach involves
identifying and addressing potential cost inefficiencies before
they become significant problems.
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7. Performance optimization
o Optimizing the performance of workloads in the cloud can help your
organization operate efficiently, improve customer satisfaction, increase
revenue, and reduce cost.
o When the backend processing time of an application decreases, users
experience faster response times, which can lead to higher user retention
and more revenue.
o There might be trade-offs between performance and cost. But sometimes,
optimizing performance can help you reduce cost.
o Autoscaling helps provide predictable performance when the load
increases by ensuring that the resources aren't overloaded. Autoscaling
also helps you reduce cost during periods of low load by removing unused
resources.
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