Performance Efficiency

The ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.

Design Principles

• Democratize advanced technologies

  • Is there a managed service for that?

• Go global in minutes

• User serverless architectures

• Experiment more often

• Mechanical sympathy

Best Practices

Selection

• Compute

  • Auto Scaling

• Storage

  • Simple Storage Service (S3)

  • EBS

• Databases

  • DynamoDB

  • RDS

• Network

  • VPC

  • Route53

  • Direct Connect

Review

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Monitoring

• Metrics, Alarms, Notifications

  • CloudWatch

• Automated Actions

  • Lambda

Tradeoffs

• Global Caching

  • Cloudfront

• Request Offloading

  • ElastiCache

• Data Migration

  • Snowball

• Read Replicas

  • RDS