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My Process: The Whole Workload

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Pre-Workload

FOUNDATION: What underpins "it"

- Landing zone

- Security

- Infrastructure as Code

- CI/CD

The Business Focus

Governance, security, developer velocity. These provide confidence that your core workload is well protected.

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The Workload

FUNCTION: Your "it"

- Compute

- Storage

- Networking and DNS

- Content delivery

The Business Focus

If the other components of The Whole Workload are set designers, producers, and craft services-this is the movie star you bought a ticket to see.

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Para-Workload

FITNESS: What keeps "it" running well

- Automated testing

- Disaster recovery

- Observability

- Documentation

The Business Focus

In a perfect world, you'd never need these. But the world isn't perfect, and neither is IT. These help us respond to regression, disruption, and confusion.

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Post-Workload

FUTURE: What keeps "it" running long

- Ongoing support, or knowledge transfer

- Cost Management

The Business Focus

Lambda runtime upgrades, remediating security findings, cost optimization campaigns, feature development, and more. The long-tail work which invariably accompanies any meaningful workload.

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A holistic, business-minded framework for cloud infrastructure

There is nothing groundbreaking or proprietary about this. Just a common sense and holistic way to look at your workload. If your core workload is where you generate business value, the surrounding pillars of The Whole Workload are how you enable that.

Some pillars may leverage non-AWS services (version control systems, observability tools, CI/CD platforms). Understanding that landscape and the integrations between tooling allows you to meaningfully extend AWS.