Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Tool

AWS Well-Architected Framework

Helps build secure, high performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure and applications

Operational Excellence

Which Well-Architected pillar focuses on managing and automating changes, monitoring your systems, and continuously improving procedures and applications. Includes; delivering business value, IaC, iterative changes, anticipate failure, and automation.

Security

Which Well-Architected pillar focuses on protection of data, infrastructure, and assets. Includes strong IAM, Data Encryption, network security and monitoring.

Reliability

Which Well-Architected pillar focuses on systems will maintain stability, recover from failures, and consistently meet customers’ needs. Includes fault tolerance, scalability, backup and recovery, and monitoring tools used to maintain reliability.

Performance Efficiency 

Which Well-Architected pillar focuses on efficient use of computing resources to meet requirements, and maintaining the efficiency as demand and technology change. Includes mechanical sympathy and experimenting often.

Cost Optimization

Which Well-Architected pillar focuses on Ensuring organization obtain maximum value from their resources while minimizing costs. Includes right-sizing resources, adopting consumption-based models, and analyzing spending patterns.

Sustainability

Which Well-Architected pillar focuses on energy reduction and efficiency across all components of a workload by achieving maximum utilization from resources provisioned and minimizing the total resources required.

AWS Well-Architected Tool

free tool for evaluating and improving cloud environment using the Well-Architected Framework.  Answer it’s questions, it will highlight strengths and weaknesses, offer guidelines, and how you can improve.

Business Perspective

Which CAF Perspective focuses on business cases, benefits realization, and changes to the business model to increase revenue

People Perspective

Which CAF Perspective focuses helping staff members adapt to new roles or skills and provide continuous learning. Connect technology and business

Governance Perspective

Which CAF Perspective focuses on project management and risk management. Involves Maximizing benefits and minimizing risk.

Platform Perspective

Which CAF Perspective focuses on management and provisioning of cloud infrastructure. Helps build enterprise-grade, scalable hybrid cloud platforms by modernizing workloads and implementing new solutions.

Security Perspective

Which CAF Perspective focuses on data protection, compliance, and identity management.

Operations Perspective

Which CAF Perspective focuses on running workloads. Involves change management, resource tracking, and reporting. Helps ensure that cloud services are delivered at required level.

Envision Phase

Which CAF Phase involves Identify and prioritize transformation opportunities according to the organization’s objectives

Align Phase

Which CAF Phase involves Identify any capability gaps and cross-organizational dependencies

Launch Phase

Which CAF Phase involves Implements pilot program in production and show key leaders the change provides value. Shows potential benefits when implemented at scale

Scale Phase

Which CAF Phase involves broadens the scope of pilot programs to achieve the desired scale

Envision, Align, Launch, Scale

What is the correct order that CAF phases occur?

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

Provides guidance and best practices to guide key stakeholders on the cloud migration process. Focuses on the business and technical aspects of cloud migration.

Network ACLs, Security Groups

Which AWS services or features can control VPC traffic?

AWS Secrets Manager or AWS Parameter Store

Where are an organization’s API keys located?

Organizational Unit

Used to group similar accounts and manage them as a group with SCPs in AWS Organizations

Service Control Policy (SCP)

policy applied to individual accounts or OUs to determine what services they are allowed to access in your AWS Organization. Use to create a boundary for incorrect policy use.

Resource Control Policy (RCP)

policy applied to resources to control their maximum permissions in your AWS Organization

IaC

Which of the following refers to a method of deploying code that allows for automatic provisioning and scaling of resources?

Configuring Security Groups

In the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following is the customer's responsibility when using Amazon RDS DB instances?

AWS WAF

Service used to monitor and block bot traffic

AWS Trusted Advisor

Which AWS service will automatically send an alert if an account is approaching one or more service limits?

AWS Timestream

service used to ingest time-series data and perform SQL queries for analysis

AWS Cost and Usage Report

Which AWS tool provides detailed breakdowns of costs and usage patterns across all AWS services over time?

AWS Cost Explorer

Which AWS tool provides a quick easy to use graphical tool that provides insight into cost and usage patterns across services. View and manage costs over time, including spending history and forecasts up to three months.

Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

Structured guidance for cloud migrations designed to reduce risk and enhance ESG performance while increasing revenue and operational efficiency. Helps businesses transition smoothly.