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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.44333 cm} x{3.53367 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{WS Well-Architected Framework terms:}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Component: & The code, configuration, orAWS Resources that together deliver against a requirement \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Workload: & A set of components that together deliver business value \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Level of effort: & The amount of time, effort, and complexity a task requires for implementation. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Security: Detection, Infra, Data \& IAM}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} To detect and investigate security events: & Capture and analyze events from logs and metrics to gain visibility. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & Take action on security events and potential threats to help secure a workload. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} To protect network + compute resources: & Any workload that with some form of network connectivity, whether the internet or a private network, requires multiple layers of defense \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 7) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} To classify data: & Criticality and sensitivity for protection and retention controls. \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 4) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Protecting data: & Multiple controls to: \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & At rest: Prevent unauthorized access or loss. \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & In transit: Reduce the risk of unauthorized access or loss \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} To prepare and and recover from incidents: & Log file access and changes \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 3) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Security: Detection, Infra, Data \& IAM (cont)}} \tn % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Process and launch tools to automate responses through APIs \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} & Prepare, pre-provision tooling and create a "clean environment" via AWS CloudFormation \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 5) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} To incorporate and validate security properties of apps thru CI/CD lifecycles: & Validate the security properties of tools and applications help to reduce the likelihood of security issues in production \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 7) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} Identity and access: & Human Identities \textasciitilde{} Interact with AWS resources via a web browser, client application, or interactive command line tools \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 6) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Machine Identities \textasciitilde{} Service applications, operational tools and workloads \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{The utilization of cloud technologies to protect data, systems, and assets} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.04673 cm} x{1.29487 cm} p{0.4177 cm} p{0.4177 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Performance efficiency}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{The ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Selecting best performing architecture: & Multiple approaches are required for more effective performance across a workload & & \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 7) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{3 Compute }} options:} \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} 1 Instances - & Virtualized servers & & \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Different families and sizes & & \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & Solid-state drives (SSDs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) & & \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 6) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} 2 Containers - & A method of operating system \seqsplit{virtualization:} & & \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 4) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} & AWS Fargate - serverless compute for containers or Amazon EC2 & & \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 6) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.04673 cm} x{1.29487 cm} p{0.4177 cm} p{0.4177 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Performance efficiency (cont)}} \tn % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)- container \seqsplit{orchestration} platforms & & \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 10) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} 3 Functions - & Abstract run environment from the code you want to apply. & & \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 5) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Storage}}} \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 1) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{The more efficient storage solution for a system varies based on:} \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{} \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 0) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{1) The kind of access operation (block, file, or object):} \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 2) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} 1a - Object & From any internet location for \seqsplit{user-generated} content, active archive, serverless computing & & \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 8) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{white} & Divides data into separate, \seqsplit{self-contained} units that are re-stored in a flat environment, with all objects at the same level & & \tn % Row Count 39 (+ 11) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.04673 cm} x{1.29487 cm} p{0.4177 cm} p{0.4177 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Performance efficiency (cont)}} \tn % Row 16 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Contain metadata: information about the file that helps with processing and usability & & \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 8) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{white} 1b - Block Storage & Often configured to decouple the data from the user's environment and spread it across multiple \seqsplit{environments} that can better serve the data & & \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 12) % Row 18 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Data is split into fixed blocks of data and then stored separately with unique identifiers & & \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 8) % Row 19 \SetRowColor{white} 1c - File & Data is stored as a single piece of information inside a folder, just like you'd organize pieces of paper inside a manila folder. & & \tn % Row Count 39 (+ 11) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.04673 cm} x{1.29487 cm} p{0.4177 cm} p{0.4177 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Performance efficiency (cont)}} \tn % Row 20 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Problem is, just like with your filing cabinet, that virtual drawer can only open so far. File-based storage systems must scale out by adding more systems, rather than scale up by adding more capacity. & & \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 17) % Row 21 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{2) Frequency of update (WORM, dynamic)} \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 1) % Row 22 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} WORM - & Write once, read many (WORM) model & & \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 3) % Row 23 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{Dynamic} \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 1) % Row 24 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{3) Availability and durability constraints} \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 1) % Row 25 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Database}}} \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 1) % Row 26 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Forms: & Relational, key-value, document, in-memory, graph, time series, and ledger & & \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 7) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.04673 cm} x{1.29487 cm} p{0.4177 cm} p{0.4177 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{4}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Performance efficiency (cont)}} \tn % Row 27 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Select according to: & \seqsplit{Availability}, consistency, partition tolerance, latency, durability, scalability, and query capability & & \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 9) % Row 28 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Network}} & As the network is between all workload components, it can have great impacts, both positive and negative, on workload performance and behavior & & \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 12) % Row 29 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Determine workload \seqsplit{requirements} for bandwidth, latency, jitter, and throughput & & \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 7) % Row 30 \SetRowColor{white} & Physical constraints, such as user or on-premises resources, determine location options & & \tn % Row Count 36 (+ 8) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}----} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Operational excellence}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Organization} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Teams must have a shared understanding of your entire workload, their role in it, and shared business goals} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} To determine priorities: & Have shared goals to set priorities for resources \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} How an organizational culture supports business outcomes: & Provide support for team members \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Preparation} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Understand workloads and their expected behaviors} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} To understand its state: & Design your workload so that it provides the information necessary across all components (for example, metrics, logs, and traces) \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 7) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} To reduce defects, ease remediation, and improve flow into production: & Adopt approaches that improve flow of changes into production that achieve refactoring fast feedback on quality, and bug fixing \tn % Row Count 26 (+ 7) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Before supporting a workload: & Evaluate the operational readiness of your workload, processes and procedures, and personnel to understand the operational risks \tn % Row Count 33 (+ 7) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Operational excellence (cont)}} \tn % Row 9 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Operate} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Measured by the achievement of business and customer outcomes:} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & After we identify metrics that will be used in calculations \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{white} To understand the health of your workload: & Define, capture, and analyze workload metrics to gain visibility to workload events \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 5) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} To manage workload and operations events: & Prepare and validate procedures for responding \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 3) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Evolve} \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 1) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Learn, share, and continuously improve} \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 1) % Row 16 \SetRowColor{white} To evolve operations: & Dedicate time and resources for nearly continuous incremental improvement to evolve the effectiveness and efficiency of your operations \tn 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