AWSのホワイトペーパーである「Architecting for the Cloud AWS Best Practices – Oct 2018」から要点をピックアップしました。ちなみに下記のような参考書を読んでからホワイトペーパーを読むのが試験対策としてはベストだ。

さて、本題である。ホワイトペーパーから大項目、中項目、小項目、みたいな感じでピックアップしている。下記のそれぞれの項目ごとに、要約をしていくとGoodである。

Differences Between Traditional and Cloud Computing Environments

• IT Assets as Provisioned Resources
• Global, Available, and Scalable Capacity
• Higher-Level Managed Services
• Built-in Security
• Architecting for Cost
• Operations on AWS

Design Principles

• Scalability
  • Scaling Vertically
  • Scaling Horizontally
    • Stateless Applications
    • Distribute Load to Multiple Nodes
    • Stateless Components
    • Stateful Components
    • Implement Session Affinity
    • Distributed Processing
    • Implement Distributed Processing
• Disposable Resources Instead of Fixed Servers
  • Instantiating Compute Resources
    • Bootstrapping
    • Golden Images
    • Containers
    • Hybrid
  • Infrastructure as Code
    • AWS CloudFormation Templates
• Automation
  • Serverless Management and Deployment
  • Infrastructure Management and Deployment
    • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    • Amazon EC2 auto recovery
    • AWS Systems Manager
    • Auto Scaling
  • Alarms and Events
    • Amazon CloudWatch alarms
    • Amazon CloudWatch Events
    • AWS Lambda scheduled events
    • AWS WAF security automations
• Loose Coupling
  • Well-Defined Interfaces
    • Amazon API Gateway
  • Service Discovery
    • Implement Service Discovery
  • Asynchronous Integration
  • Distributed Systems Best Practice
    • Graceful Failure in Practive
• Services, Not Servers
  • Managed Services
  • Serverless Architectures
• Databases
  • Choose the Right Database Technology for Each Workload
  • Relational Databases
    • Scalability
    • High Availability
    • Anti-Patterns
  • NoSQL Databases
    • Scalability
    • High Availability
    • Anti-Patterns
  • Data Warehouse
    • Scalability
    • High Availability
    • Anti-Patterns
  • Search
    • Scalability
    • High Availability
  • Graph Databases
    • Scalability
    • High Availability
• Managing Increasing Volumes of Data
• Removing Single Points of Failure
  • Introducing Redundancy
  • Detect Failure
    • Design Good Health Checks
  • Durable Data Storage
    • Synchronous Replication
    • Asynchronous Replication
    • Quorum-based Replication
  • Automated Multi-Data Center Resilience
  • Fault Isolation and Traditional Horizontal Scaling
    • Shuffle Sharding
• Optimize for Cost
  • Right Sizing
  • Elasticity
  • Take Advantage of the Variety of Purchasing Options
    • Reserved Instances
    • Spot Instances
• Caching
  • Application Data Caching
  • Edge Caching
• Security
  • Use AWS Features for Defense in Depth
  • Share Security Responsibility with AWS
  • Reduce Privileged Access
  • Security as Code
  • Real-Time Auditinng