# Design principles
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+  **Minimize latency**: EUC workloads are sensitive to latency. For best performance, minimize the latency between end users and EUC services, as well as between EUC instances and dependencies. 
+  **Monitor performance metrics**: Use performance metrics to understand the behavior of both individual instances and the holistic health of your EUC environment. Adjust configurations to meet evolving performance requirements. 
+  **Consider mechanical sympathy**: Understand the design goals of AWS EUC services and features and align them with your workload goals. For further information related to mechanical sympathy, see [Consider Mechanical Sympathy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/perf-dp.html).