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PERF05-BP03 Define a process to improve workload performance - AWS Well-Architected Framework

PERF05-BP03 Define a process to improve workload performance

Define a process to evaluate new services, design patterns, resource types, and configurations as they become available. For example, run existing performance tests on new instance offerings to determine their potential to improve your workload.

Common anti-patterns:

  • You assume your current architecture is static and won’t be updated over time.

  • You introduce architecture changes over time with no metric justification.

Benefits of establishing this best practice: By defining your process for making architectural changes, you can use gathered data to influence your workload design over time.

Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Medium

Implementation guidance

Your workload's performance has a few key constraints. Document these so that you know what kinds of innovation might improve the performance of your workload. Use this information when learning about new services or technology as it becomes available to identify ways to alleviate constraints or bottlenecks.

Identify the key performance constraints for your workload. Document your workload’s performance constraints so that you know what kinds of innovation might improve the performance of your workload.

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