CLF-C02 Practice Question 112: Use Managed Services
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) · Test 12 · question 2 of 10
An operations team spends much of its week patching, backing up and upgrading the databases and message brokers it runs itself on Amazon EC2 instances. To reduce this operational burden, the team moves those components to AWS managed services and builds its operational procedures around them. Which design principle of the AWS Well-Architected Framework operational excellence pillar is the team following?
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Answer:
Use managed services is an operational excellence design principle. It means reducing operational burden by using AWS managed services where possible, and building operational procedures around how you interact with those services. Handing routine database and message broker administration to managed services frees the team from undifferentiated work such as patching and backups.
The other options are real Well-Architected design principles from other pillars. Option B, experiment more often, is a performance efficiency principle about quickly testing different instance types, storage or configurations. Option C, measure overall efficiency, is a cost optimization principle about comparing a workload's business output with the cost of delivering it. Option D, maintain traceability, is a security principle about monitoring, alerting on and auditing actions and changes in real time.
Reference: Operational excellence design principles