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Best practices - High Performance Computing Lens

Best practices

There are four best practice areas for operational excellence in the cloud.

For more information on these areas, see the AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper.

Organization

HPCOPS01-BP01 Start from business objectives and organizational priorities, and drive operational decisions about your HPC environment from them

Prepare

HPCOPS02-BP01 Evaluate options for scheduling jobs in your cloud environment
HPCOPS03-BP01 Understand your data movement requirements
HPCOPS04-BP01 Minimize impact when migrating users and their jobs between HPC environments
HPCOPS04-BP02 Implement your environments with infrastructure as code and version control your deployments
HPCOPS05-BP01 Predict how your system will respond to failures and design your operational management to mitigate these.

Operate

HPCOPS06-BP01 Test and observe job-level performance for every change

Evolve

HPCOPS07-BP01 Review and test the latest service, product and software updates for business fit and reduction in operational overhead.

Focus areas

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