1. Performance Efficiency Pillar
   1. Design Principles
      1. Democratize advanced technologies
      2. Go global in minutes
      3. Use serverless architectures
      4. Experiment more often
      5. Consider mechanical sympathy
   2. Best Practices
      1. Selection
         1. Performance Architecture Selection
            1. PERF 1: How do you select the best performing architecture?
         2. Compute Architecture Selection
            1. PERF 2: How do you select your compute solution?
         3. Storage Architecture Selection
            1. PERF 3: How do you select your storage solution?
         4. Database Architecture Selection
            1. PERF 4: How do you select your database solution?
         5. Network Architecture Selection
            1. PERF 5: How do you configure your networking solution?
      2. Review
         1. Evolve Your Workload to Take Advantage of New Releases
            1. PERF 6: How do you evolve your workload to take advantage of new releases?
      3. Monitoring
         1. Monitor Your Resources to Ensure That They Are Performing as Expected
            1. PERF 7: How do you monitor your resources to ensure they are performing?
      4. Trade-offs
         1. Using Trade-offs to Improve Performance
            1. PERF 8: How do you use tradeoffs to improve performance?
            2. Subtopic 1
2. Reliability Pillar
   1. Design Principles
      1. Automatically recover from failure
      2. Test recovery procedures
      3. Scale horizontally
      4. Stop guessing capacity
      5. Manage change in automation
   2. Best Practices
      1. Foundations
         1. Manage Service Quotas and Constraints
            1. REL 1: How do you manage service quotas and constraints?
         2. Plan your Network Topology
            1. REL 2: How do you plan your network topology?
      2. Workload Architecture
         1. Design Your Workload Service Architecture
            1. REL 3: How do you design your workload service architecture?
         2. Design Interactions in a Distributed System to Prevent Failures
            1. REL 4: How do you design interactions in a distributed system to prevent failures?
         3. Design Interactions in a Distributed System to Mitigate or Withstand Failures
            1. REL 5: How do you design interactions in a distributed system to mitigate or withstand failures?
      3. Change Management
         1. Monitor Workload Resources
            1. REL 6: How do you monitor workload resources?
         2. Design your Workload to Adapt to Changes in Demand
            1. REL 7: How do you design your workload to adapt to changes in demand?
         3. Implement Change
            1. REL 8: How do you implement change?
      4. Failure Management
         1. Back up Data
            1. REL 9: How do you back up data?
         2. Use Fault Isolation to Protect Your Workload
            1. REL 10: How do you use fault isolation to protect your workload?
         3. Design your Workload to Withstand Component Failures
            1. REL 11: How do you design your workload to withstand component failures?
         4. Test Reliability
            1. REL 12: How do you test reliability?
         5. Plan for Disaster Recovery
            1. REL 13: How do you plan for disaster recovery (DR)?
3. Sustainability pillar
   1. Design Principles
      1. Understand your impact
      2. Establish sustainability goals
      3. Maximize utilization
      4. Anticipate and adopt new, more efficient hardware and software offerings
      5. Use managed services
      6. Reduce the downstream impact of your cloud workloads
   2. Best Practices
      1. Region selection
         1. SUS 1: How do you select Regions to support your sustainability goals?
      2. User behavior patterns
         1. SUS 2: How do you take advantage of user behavior patterns to support your sustainability goals?
      3. Software and architecture patterns
         1. SUS 3: How do you take advantage of software and architecture patterns to support your sustainability goals?
      4. Data patterns
         1. SUS 4: How do you take advantage of data access and usage patterns to support your sustainability goals?
      5. Hardware patterns
         1. SUS 5: How do your hardware management and usage practices support your sustainability goals?
      6. Development and deployment process
         1. SUS 6: How do your development and deployment processes support your sustainability goals?
4. Security Pillar
   1. Design Principles
      1. Implement a strong identity foundation
      2. Enable traceability
      3. Apply security at all layers
      4. Protect data in transit and at rest
      5. Prepare for security events
      6. Keep people away from data
      7. Automate security best practices
   2. Best Practices
      1. Foundations
         1. Shared Responsibility
         2. AWS Response to Abuse and Compromise
         3. Governance
         4. Operating Your Workloads Securely
         5. AWS Account Management and Separation
         6. SEC 1: How do you securely operate your workload?
      2. Identity and Access Management
         1. Identity Management
            1. SEC 2: How do you manage identities for people and machines?
         2. Permissions Management
            1. SEC 3: How do you manage permissions for people and machines?
      3. Detection
         1. Configure
         2. Investigate
         3. SEC 4: How do you detect and investigate security events?
      4. Infrastructure Protection
         1. Protecting Networks
            1. SEC 5: How do you protect your network resources?
         2. Protecting Compute
            1. SEC 6: How do you protect your compute resources?
      5. Data Protection
         1. Data Classification
            1. SEC 7: How do you classify your data?
         2. Protecting Data at Rest
            1. SEC 8: How do you protect your data at rest?
         3. Protecting Data in Transit
            1. SEC 9: How do you protect your data in transit?
      6. Incident Response
         1. Design Goals of Cloud Response
         2. Educate
         3. Prepare
         4. Simulate
         5. Iterate
         6. SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents?
5. Cost Optimization Pillar
   1. Design Principles
      1. Implement cloud financial management
      2. Adopt a consumption model
      3. Measure overall efficiency
      4. Stop spending money on undifferentiated heavy lifting
      5. Analyze and attribute expenditure
   2. Best Practices
      1. Practice Cloud Financial Management
         1. Functional Ownership
         2. Finance and Technology Partnership
         3. Cloud Budgets and Forecasts
         4. Cost-Aware Processes
         5. Cost-Aware Culture
         6. Quantify Business Value Delivered Through Cost Optimization
         7. COST 1: How do you implement cloud financial management?
      2. Expenditure and Usage Awareness
         1. Governance
            1. COST 2: How do you govern usage?
         2. Monitor Cost and Usage
            1. COST 3: How do you monitor usage and cost?
         3. Decommission Resources
            1. COST 4: How do you decommission resources?
      3. Cost Effective Resources
         1. Evaluate Cost When Selecting Services
            1. COST 5: How do you evaluate cost when you select services?
         2. Select the Correct Resource Type, Size, and Number
            1. COST 6: How do you meet cost targets when you select resource type, size and number?
         3. Select the Best Pricing Model
            1. COST 7: How do you use pricing models to reduce cost?
         4. Plan for Data Transfer
            1. COST 8: How do you plan for data transfer charges?
      4. Manage Demand and Supply Resources
         1. Manage Demand
         2. Dynamic Supply
         3. COST 9: How do you manage demand, and supply resources?
      5. Optimize Over Time
         1. COST 10: How do you evaluate new services?
6. Operational Excellence Pillar
   1. Design Principles
      1. Perform operations as code
      2. Make frequent, small, reversible changes
      3. Refine operations procedures frequently
      4. Anticipate failure
      5. Learn from all operational failures
   2. Best Practices
      1. Organization
         1. Organization Priorities
            1. OPS 1: How do you determine what your priorities are?
         2. Operating Model
            1. OPS 2: How do you structure your organization to support your business outcomes?
         3. Organizational Culture
            1. OPS 3: How does your organizational culture support your business outcomes?
      2. Prepare
         1. Design Telemetry
            1. OPS 4: How do you design your workload so that you can understand its state?
         2. Design for Operations
            1. OPS 5: How do you reduce defects, ease remediation, and improve flow into production?
         3. Mitigate Deployment Risks
            1. OPS 6: How do you mitigate deployment risks?
         4. Operational Readiness
            1. OPS 7: How do you know that you are ready to support a workload?
      3. Operate
         1. Understanding Workload Health
            1. OPS 8: How do you understand the health of your workload?
         2. Understanding Operational Health
            1. OPS 9: How do you understand the health of your operations?
         3. Responding to Events
            1. OPS 10: How do you manage workload and operations events?
      4. Evolve
         1. Learn, Share, and Improve
            1. OPS 11: How do you evolve operations?