AWS

Right Sizing
Provisioning Instances to Match Workloads
Right sizing is the process of matching instance types and sizes to your workload
performance and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost. It’s also the
process of looking at deployed instances and identifying opportunities to
eliminate or downsize without compromising capacity or other requirements,
which results in lower costs.

Amazon DynamoDB
Serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database with single-
digit millisecond performance at any scale
Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database service with
single-digit millisecond response times at any scale, enabling you to develop and
run modern applications while only paying for what you use.

Amazon Aurora
Unparalleled high performance and availability at global
scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility
Amazon Aurora provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless
computers, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and
integrations with other AWS services.
Amazon Aurora machine learning (ML) enables you to add ML-based predictions
to applications via the familiar SQL programming language, so you don't need to
learn separate tools or have prior machine learning experience. It provides
simple, optimized, and secure integration between Aurora and AWS ML services
without having to build custom integrations or move data around. When you run
a ML query, Aurora calls Amazon Sage Maker or Amazon Bedrock for a wide
variety of ML algorithms including generative AI or Amazon Comprehend for
sentiment analysis, so your application doesn't need to call these services
directly.

Amazon Memory DB for Redis

Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database service
for ultra-fast performance
Amazon memory DB for Redis is a durable database with microsecond reads, low
single-digit millisecond writes, scalability, and enterprise security. memory DB
delivers 99.99% availability and near instantaneous recovery without any data
loss.

Amazon Redshift
Power data driven decisions with the best price-
performance cloud data warehouse.
Amazon Redshift uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data
across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-
designed hardware and machine learning to deliver the best price performance at
any scale.

AWS Well-Architected
Learn, measure, and build using architectural best
practices.
AWS Well-Architected helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing,
resilient, and efficient infrastructure for a variety of applications and workloads.
Built around six pillars—operational excellence, security, reliability, performance
efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability—AWS Well-Architected provides a
consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures and
implement scalable designs.
Operational Excellence Pillar
The operational excellence pillar focuses on running and monitoring systems, and
continually improving processes and procedures. Key topics include automating
changes, responding to events, and defining standards to manage daily
operations.
Security Pillar
The security pillar focuses on protecting information and systems. Key topics
include confidentiality and integrity of data, managing user permissions, and
establishing controls to detect security events.
Reliability Pillar
The reliability pillar focuses on workloads performing their intended functions and
how to recover quickly from failure to meet demands. Key topics include
distributed system design, recovery planning, and adapting to changing
requirements.
Performance Efficiency Pillar
The performance efficiency pillar focuses on structured and streamlined
allocation of IT and computing resources. Key topics include selecting resource
types and sizes optimized for workload requirements, monitoring performance,
and maintaining efficiency as business needs evolve.

Cost Optimization Pillar

The cost optimization pillar focuses on avoiding unnecessary costs. Key topics
include understanding spending over time and controlling fund allocation,
selecting resources of the right type and quantity, and scaling to meet business
needs without overspending.

Sustainability Pillar
The sustainability pillar focuses on minimizing the environmental impacts of
running cloud workloads. Key topics include a shared responsibility model for
sustainability, understanding impact, and maximizing utilization to minimize
required resources and reduce downstream impacts.
 Shared Responsibility Model
Inherited Controls – Controls which a customer fully inherits from AWS.
 Physical and Environmental controls
Shared Controls – Controls which apply to both the infrastructure layer and
customer layers, but in completely separate contexts or perspectives. In a shared
control, AWS provides the requirements for the infrastructure and the customer
must provide their own control implementation within their use of AWS services.
Examples include:

 Patch Management – AWS is responsible for patching and fixing flaws within the
infrastructure, but customers are responsible for patching their guest OS and
applications.
 Configuration Management – AWS maintains the configuration of its
infrastructure devices, but a customer is responsible for configuring their own
guest operating systems, databases, and applications.
 Awareness & Training - AWS trains AWS employees, but a customer must train
their own employees.
Customer Specific – Controls which are solely the responsibility of the customer
based on the application they are deploying within AWS services. Examples
include:

 Service and Communications Protection or Zone Security which may require a

customer to route or zone data within specific security environments.
AWS Managed Services
Operational excellence in the cloud
AWS Managed Services (AMS) helps you adopt AWS at scale and operate more
efficiently and securely. We leverage standard AWS services and offer guidance
and execution of operational best practices with specialized automations, skills,
and experience that are contextual to your environment and applications.
AWS Migration Hub
Simplifying your end-to-end migration and
modernization journey
AWS Migration Hub delivers a guided end-to-end migration and modernization
journey through discovery, assessment, planning, and execution. Access the
latest guidance and tools from one location to get automated recommendations,
a prescriptive plan and cross-team collaboration and tracking to accelerate your
transformation. Simplify rehost, refactor and replat form of your applications
today with specialized services in Migration Hub built from the experience of
migrating thousands of customers to AWS.

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

Accelerating your cloud-powered digital business transformation
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) leverages AWS experience and
best practices to help you digitally transform and accelerate your business
outcomes through innovative use of AWS. AWS CAF identifies specific
organizational capabilities that underpin successful cloud transformations. These
capabilities provide best practice guidance that helps you improve your cloud
readiness. AWS CAF groups its capabilities in six perspectives: Business, People,
Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations. Each perspective comprises a set
of capabilities that functionally related stakeholders own or manage in the cloud
transformation journey. Use the AWS CAF to identify and prioritize
transformation opportunities, evaluate and improve your cloud readiness, and
iteratively evolve your transformation roadmap.

Business

The Business perspective helps ensure that your cloud investments

accelerate your digital transformation ambitions and business
outcomes. Common stakeholders include chief executive officer
(CEO), chief financial officer (CFO), chief operations officer (COO),
chief information officer (CIO), and chief technology officer (CTO).
People

The People perspective serves as a bridge between technology and

business, accelerating the cloud journey to help organizations more
rapidly evolve to a culture of continuous growth, learning, and where
change becomes business-as-normal, with focus on culture,
organizational structure, leadership, and workforce. Common
stakeholders include CIO, COO, CTO, cloud director, and cross-
functional and enterprise-wide leaders.

Governance

The Governance perspective helps you orchestrate your cloud

initiatives while maximizing organizational benefits and minimizing
transformation-related risks. Common stakeholders include chief
transformation officer, CIO, CTO, CFO, chief data officer (CDO), and
chief risk officer (CRO).

Platform

The Platform perspective helps you build an enterprise-grade,

scalable, hybrid cloud platform, modernize existing workloads, and
implement new cloud-native solutions. Common stakeholders include
CTO, technology leaders, architects, and engineers.

Security

The Security perspective helps you achieve the confidentiality,

integrity, and availability of your data and cloud workloads. Common
stakeholders include chief information security officer (CISO), chief
compliance officer (CCO), internal audit leaders, and security
architects and engineers.

Operations

The Operations perspective helps ensure that your cloud services are
delivered at a level that meets the needs of your business. Common
stakeholders include infrastructure and operations leaders, site
reliability engineers, and information technology service managers.

Amazon Neptune
High-performance graph analytics and serverless database for superior
scalability and availability

Amazon Athena
Analyze petabyte-scale data where it lives with
ease and flexibility
Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open-
source frameworks, supporting open-table and file formats. Athena provides
a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives. Analyze
data or build applications from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) data
lake and 30 data sources, including on-premises data sources or other cloud
systems using SQL or Python. Athena is built on open-source Trino and
Presto engines and Apache Spark frameworks, with no provisioning or
configuration effort required.

AWS Secrets Manager

Centrally manage the lifecycle of secrets
AWS Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database
credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles .

Amazon Elasticache
Real-time performance for real-time applications

Amazon ElastiCache is a serverless, Redis- and Memcached-compatible caching

service delivering real-time, cost-optimized performance for modern applications.
ElastiCache scales to hundreds of millions of operations per second with
microsecond response times and offers enterprise-grade security and reliability.

AWS Identity and Access Management

Securely manage identities and access to AWS services
and resources
With AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), you can specify who or what
can access services and resources in AWS, centrally manage fine-grained
permissions, and analyze access to refine permissions across AWS.

AWS Cloud Resilience

Build and run resilient, highly available applications in
the AWS cloud
Cloud resilience refers to the ability for an application to resist or recover from
disruptions, including those related to infrastructure, dependent services,
misconfigurations, transient network issues, and load spikes. Cloud resilience also
plays a critical role in an organization’s broader business
resilience strategy, including the ability to meet digital sovereignty requirements.

Machine Learning Service -

Amazon SageMaker
Build, train, and deploy machine learning models for
any use case with fully managed infrastructure, tools,
and workflows.
Extract & Analyze Data:-
Automatically extract, process, and analyze documents for more accurate
investigation and faster decision making.

Fraud Detection:-
Automate detection of suspicious transactions faster and alert your customers to
reduce potential financial loss.

Churn Prediction:-
Predict likelihood of customer churn and improve retention by honing in on likely
abandoners and taking remedial actions such as promotional offers.
Personalized Recommendations:-
Deliver customized, unique experiences to customers to improve customer
satisfaction and grow your business rapidly.

Amazon Mechanical Turk

Access a global, on-demand, 24x7 workforce
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it
easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a
distributed workforce who can perform these tasks virtually. This could include
anything from conducting simple data validation and research to more subjective
tasks like survey participation, content moderation, and more. MTurk enables
companies to harness the collective intelligence, skills, and insights from a global
workforce to streamline business processes, augment data collection and
analysis, and accelerate machine learning development.

Amazon Transcribe
Automatically convert speech to text
Amazon Recognition

Automate and lower the cost of your image

recognition and video analysis with machine learning
Face liveness

Face compare and search

Face detection and analysis

Content moderation

Custom labels

Text detection

Video segment detection