# Process and culture
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 When architecting an AWS EUC solution, there are principles and practices that you can adopt to help you better run an efficient, high-performing environment. This focus area offers best practices to help adopt a culture that delivers and maintains a level of performance that both meet and exceed the requirements of the business. 


|  EUCPERF07: How do you test performance of your EUC environment?  | 
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 Validate your workload performance against real-life testing conditions based on your end users' use cases, performance metrics, and constraints within their workloads. 


|  EUCPERF08: How do you monitor performance and availability in your EUC environment?  | 
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 Unless you can accurately measure your resource performance against your key performance indicators and functional requirements, you cannot be certain that the workload will meet your objectives consistently. Establish a set of baseline requirements. Once established, routinely measure performance to understand how your workload's performance may vary against external demands. 


|  EUCPERF09: How do you evolve your workload to benefit from new feature releases?  | 
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 New releases are inevitable, and updates can change the performance characteristics of a system. Understand what changes are being made, and develop strategies for taking advantage of performance increases and resource consumption due to those changes. 


|  EUCPERF10: How do you manage ongoing and on-demand sizing changes in your EUC environment?  | 
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 Consider the growth of performance needs over time. Also consider cyclical events such as end-of-month or end-of-quarter reporting, annual updates, and holiday demands. 

**Topics**
+ [EUCPERF07-BP01 Conduct realistic end-to-end testing aligned with organizational objectives](eucperf07-bp01.md)
+ [EUCPERF08-BP01 Establish and monitor service metrics and KPIs](eucperf08-bp01.md)
+ [EUCPERF08-BP02 Monitor Amazon WorkSpaces Applications CloudWatch metrics](eucperf08-bp02.md)
+ [EUCPERF08-BP03 Monitor Amazon WorkSpaces Personal CloudWatch metrics](eucperf08-bp03.md)
+ [EUCPERF08-BP04 Monitor operating system metrics](eucperf08-bp04.md)
+ [EUCPERF09-BP01 Follow AWS EUC news sources](eucperf09-bp01.md)
+ [EUCPERF10-BP01 Align the instance type and instance size of a fleet with the workload](eucperf10-bp01.md)
+ [EUCPERF10-BP02 Enable self-service WorkSpaces Personal management capabilities, and allow users to request changes by an administrator](eucperf10-bp02.md)
+ [EUCPERF10-BP03 Install only the application features required by end users](eucperf10-bp03.md)
+ [EUCPERF10-BP04 Remove caches, temporary data, log files, and unneeded files such as tutorials and sample data before creating an image](eucperf10-bp04.md)
+ [EUCPERF10-BP05 Tune application performance where possible to optimize compute resource usage](eucperf10-bp05.md)