Continue being efficient as demand and technology evolves

Best Practices:

Use Managed Services (Avoid Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting)

Go Serverless (Lower transactional costs and less operational burden)

Experiment (Cloud makes it easy to experiment)

Monitor Performance (Trigger CloudWatch alarms - Perform actions with SQS and Lambda)

Choose the right solution:

Compute: EC2 instances vs Lambda vs Containers

Storage: Block, File, Object

Database: RDS vs DynamoDB vs RedShift ..

Caching: ElastiCache vs CloudFront vs DAX vs Read Replicas

Network: CloudFront, Global Accelerator, Route 53, Placement Groups, VPC endpoints, Direct

Connect

Use product specific features: Enhanced Networking, S3 Transfer Acceleration, EBS

optimized instances