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Cloud Computing · Foundational

Operational Excellence Pillar

Well-architected pillar focused on running and monitoring systems and continually improving processes and procedures.

Definition

Operational excellence design principles include performing operations as code, making frequent small reversible changes, refining operations procedures frequently, anticipating failure and learning from all operational events. It appears in the AWS, Azure and Google Cloud frameworks.

Example

A team automates deployments with pipelines and runs game days to rehearse incident response.

Exam tip

Infrastructure as code, runbooks and small reversible changes map to operational excellence.

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