Improving Performance

Designing performant workloads is essential to maintain your service level agreements and to ensure customer satisfaction. This chapter will discuss the various aspects you can focus on to improve the performance of your workload on AWS. These aspects assess the current performance of your workload against your business requirements, identify and examine its performance bottlenecks, and eventually, test and recommend potential remediation solutions.

Prior to reading this chapter, you are encouraged to complete Chapter 8, Meeting Performance Objectives. The key concepts from Chapter 8 are important to consider when designing your workloads for performance efficiency. Therefore, this chapter will make constant references to Chapter 8 without explicitly repeating the concepts.

Before you start examining the best practices for ensuring performance efficiency, here is a quick refresher on the five design principles of the AWS Well-Architected Framework performance...