Improving Operational Excellence
Being able to keep workloads operating efficiently over time is essential to meet your business objectives. As part of the continuous improvements that you want to make to an existing solution on AWS, improving operational excellence should be relatively high on your to-do list. This is of particular importance if you have deployed workloads in production whose health could be critical to your business. For those workloads, it is paramount to ensure that operations run smoothly to avoid any mishaps.
This chapter will discuss the specifics of operating workloads on AWS. You will look at the following topics and learn how you can follow operational best practices:
- Design principles
- Improving the organizational fit
- Identifying operational gaps
- Evolving operations