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Pillars: The Well-Architected Framework

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Pillars: The Well-Architected Framework

- [Instructor] The Well-Architected framework is made up of five pillars, five sections that, working together, support your application and the deployment and the overall operation of your application. Let's take a look at the pillars. First up, we have operational excellence. That sounds kind of vague but what it means is that if you have something operating in the cloud, how do you know how it's operating unless you monitor it? And if you monitor it, you may find out that, hey, the storage could be faster. Hey, the CPUs could be faster. The overall database is too small. My network isn't set up the right way. So through monitoring and continually monitoring over the lifetime of the application and fine-tuning your architecture, you'll be able to achieve operational excellence. Next up is security. And security is protecting the information, our important data, the systems and all of the other managed services that are…

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