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Using the Well-Architected Tool to Define Your AWS Workloads

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Students: 629
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Description

The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review your application state to understand how to follow best practices when working with the public AWS cloud. It ensures that you consider all the elements that can affect cloud deployments and supports tracking your progress as you work towards implementing and improving your cloud strategies.

Learning how to use the AWS Well-Architected Tool will give you an invaluable resource that you can use when planning cloud deployments.

In this hands-on laboratory, you will learn how to use the AWS Well-Architected Tool to generate questions for a workload.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to do the following in the AWS Well-Architected Tool:

  • Create a profile
  • Define a workload
  • Save a milestone
  • Generate a report

Intended audience

  • Candidates for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification
  • Cloud Architects
  • DevOps Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • AWS Well-Architected Tool

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

Environment before

Environment after

Covered topics

Amazon Web Services

Lab steps

Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
Creating a Profile
Defining a Workload
Using the AWS Well-Architected Tool

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