Operational Excellence

Ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to continually improve supporting processes and procedures.

Design Principles

• Perform operations as code

• Annotate documentation

• Make frequent, small, reversible changes

• Refine operations procedures frequently

• Anticipate failure

• Learn from all operational failures

Best Practices

Prepare

• Operations as Code

  • CloudFormation

• Log Collection and Monitoring

  • AWS Config

  • CloudWatch

  • CloudTrail

  • VPC Flow Logs

• Game Days

  • Break things intentionally, see if everything recovers

Operate

• Metrics Dashboards

  • CloudWatch

• Insights

  • CloudTrail

  • VPC Flow Logs

  • X-Ray

Evolve

• Analyze Log Data

  • Elasticsearch Service

• Strong DevOps Model

  • CodeBuild

  • CodeCommit

  • CodeDeploy

  • CodePipeline

  • CodeStart

  • X-Ray