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Design principles

Design principles - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Design principles

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- [Instructor] When looking at performance efficiency in your organization for your applications, Amazon suggests that you follow the design principles that they've found work for most customers and AWS themselves. And the first design principle sounds like a bit of a buzzword, doesn't it? Democratize advanced technologies. Well, what do they mean by this? Well, you've seen some technology that gets announced by Amazon and you might think, "Ah, that's pretty cool. I don't know when I'd have time to learn how to set that up and build it." Or maybe you would look at a new technology and say, "We should build that from scratch ourselves." Well, Amazon's suggesting that maybe you should consider anything new that you want to use at Amazon and take a look whether there is a service that has already been built for you so you don't have to waste time. You want to remove the burden of saying to your IT staff, "Let's build this and maintain it, we need more people." No, let's use the service…

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