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Appendix: Reliability (Change Management) - AWS Well-Architected Framework Study Guide

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Appendix: Reliability

How do you monitor workload resources?

  • Monitor all components for the workload (Generation)
  • Define and calculate metrics (Aggregation)
  • Send notifications (Real-time processing and alarming)
  • Automate responses (Real-time processing and alarming)
  • Storage and Analytics
  • Conduct reviews regularly
  • Monitor end-to-end tracing of requests through your system

How do you design your workload to adapt to changes in demand?

  • Use automation when obtaining or scaling resources
  • Obtain resources upon detection of impairment to a workload
  • Obtain resources upon detection that more resources are needed for a workload
  • Load test your workload

How do you implement change?

  • Use runbooks for standard activities such as deployment
  • Integrate functional testing as part of your deployment
  • Integrate resiliency testing as part of your deployment
  • Deploy using immutable infrastructure
  • Deploy changes with automation

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