When the margin for error is razor thin, it is best to assume that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. AWS customers are increasingly building resilient workloads that continue to operate while tolerating faults in systems. When customers build mission-critical applications on AWS, they have to make sure that every piece in their system is designed in such a way that the system continues to work while things go wrong.
AWS customers have applied the principle of design for failure to build scalable mission-critical systems that meet the highest standards of reliability. The best practices established in the AWS Well Architected framework have allowed teams to improve systems continuously while minimizing business disruptions. Let’s look at a few key design principles we have seen customers use to operate workloads that cannot afford downtime...
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