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Operational Excellence Pillar

Operational Excellence Pillar

The AWS Well-Architected Framework’s Operational Excellence Pillar provides best practices for designing, delivering, and maintaining workloads efficiently. It emphasizes observability, automation, continuous improvement, and risk management to enhance business outcomes. Key principles include organizing teams around business objectives, implementing telemetry for insights, automating deployment and operations, and refining procedures frequently. Organizations can improve operational health by measuring KPIs, responding to incidents efficiently, and evolving processes based on lessons learned. By adopting these best practices, businesses ensure resilient, scalable, and high-performing cloud architectures that align with strategic goals.

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