Performance Design Principles

AWS defines five design principles to enhance performance efficiency in the cloud. The following section will take you through each of them.

Principle #1 – Democratize Advanced Technologies

This first principle is about leveraging the advanced technology services offered by your cloud provider – in this case, AWS. There are two main reasons for that. First, why not let AWS do the heavy lifting of managing the resources supporting a specific technology while you focus on using that technology? Second, there is no benefit in reinventing the wheel. Simply put: if an AWS service matches your needs, use it and don’t roll your own. You can thus focus on implementing your solution to bring added value to your business.

Principle #2 – Go Global in Minutes

With AWS, you can easily deploy your resources across the globe, closer to the end users, to improve their experience. It will effectively lower the network latency...