Tradeoff for cost
The WAF is a framework that covers a set of best practices touching the pillars of cost optimization, namely, operational excellence, performance efficiency, reliability, and security. One thing you have to remember is an ideal solution does not equate to a low-cost solution; there will be tradeoffs with other pillars such as operational excellence, performance efficiency, reliability, and security. The question that you need to ask yourself is: What is the top priority for your business? Is it low cost, no downtime, or high performance? Based on your answer, there will be compromises that you have to accept. Let us cover the tradeoffs between cost and each pillar of the WAF:
- Cost versus reliability: Reliability and cost are inversely proportional. If you want to implement high availability and disaster recovery for your workloads, that will lead to additional costs. The rule here is to verify whether metrics such as SLAs, RTOs, and recovery point objectives...
