Example worksheet

The following example worksheet represents a typical mapping of workload purposes to types of workload hosting environments. This example is meant to spur discussion of and comparison to both your current on-premises environments and your expectations for working on AWS.

Table 1 — Example worksheet

Workload environment purpose	Corporate desktops	Sandbox	Development	Data-oriented development	Test	Production
Self-paced learning/early experimentation	•	•	•	•
Development	•		•	•
Static analysis, building, unit testing	•		•	•
CI jobs and CD pipelines			•	•	•	•
Smoke testing			•	•	•	•
Development integration testing			•	•	•
Production-like system testing			•	•	•
Stable shared test			•	•	•
Resiliency testing			•	•	•	•
Demo	•	•	•	•	•	•
External pre-release (Alpha, Beta)					•	•
Production						•