Cloud Engineer interview question · Most asked
What are the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework and how do you use them?
Summary
AWS has six: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimisation and sustainability; Azure and Google Cloud frameworks cover the same themes. Use them to review workloads before launch and periodically, record risks and decide which to accept or fix.
Longer Answer
The value is in the conversation and the tracked improvement plan, not in a score.
Key Points
- Six AWS pillars.
- Similar frameworks on Azure and GCP.
- Review before launch and periodically.
- Track risks.
Deep dive: Cloud Computing Tutorial: Well-Architected Design
Explanation
What interviewers look for
Practical use, not just listing pillars.
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