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General best practices

General best practices - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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General best practices

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I want to wrap up this chapter and the course with some general best practices that can help you to architect effective AWS solutions. It's very important to understand some best practices. In fact, there's a book that's called The Checklist Manifesto, which really just reminds us of a very important lesson. Some of the biggest buildings, most important bridges and other massive projects were successful because they had checklists. They knew some things that they needed to look out for and make sure they were getting done. And they knew some things that shouldn't be happening and they made sure they weren't. Checklists are powerful and that's really a lot like a best practice list. It's the things you want to make sure you're doing. So first of all, you want to make sure that you design for failures. This means implementing technologies like clustering. With clustering, you have extra instances that are there that can take over…

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