The 5 Pillars

The foundation for building secure, high-performing applications with the infrastructure to deploy and scale rapidly are as follows:

Operational Excellence

• Continuously improve your processes and gain insight into your operational systems by monitoring, managing, and automating changes.
• Define standards for how to respond to events and collect metrics to measure your business outcomes.
• Run efficient operations that allow you to prioritize activities, anticipate failures, and respond quickly to the needs of your business and customers.

Security

• Strengthen and protect your data and systems by establishing least privilege principles and enforcing the separation of roles and responsibilities.
• Maintain data integrity and privacy in any environment for data in transit and at rest.
• Use automation to prepare for threats and incidents as well as to scale securely and cost-effectively.

Reliability

• Increase your ability to prevent and recover from service and infrastructure disruptions.
• Use multiple small resources to mitigate the impact of a single failure on youroverall system.
• Leverage automation to test and expose failure pathways and provide immediate recovery processes.

Performance Efficiency

• Optimize and maintain the efficiency of your computing resources even as demand increases.
• Decrease latency and improve customer experience at minimal costs with global deployment.
• Employ serverless architecture for managing services at cloud scale.

Cost Optimization

• Maximize your business outcomes and return on investments with cost-aware systems that optimize resources at minimal cost.
• Right-size with a consumption model where you pay only for the computing resources you use based on your business needs.
• Analyze and assign system usage and costs to increase transparency, measure ROI and increase accountability.