Introduction

The rate of cloud computing adoption continues to rise, as it has for several years. Technology companies and startups often embrace the cloud early, while heavily regulated industries like healthcare and finance may have a slower adoption process due to security and compliance considerations. This all results in a demand for cloud systems’ operators to deploy, monitor, scale, and run the day-to-day operations of a cloud implementation.

This rate of adoption represents an opportunity for systems operators to add to their existing toolset a suite of cloud computing best practices. The best practices put forward by the well-architected framework is intended to allow you to accomplish an implementation that leverages the best and ...

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