# Best practices
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 There are three best practice areas for operational excellence in the cloud: 
+  Preparation 
+  Operations 
+  Responses 

 To drive operational excellence in streaming media workloads, preparation is essential. Many operational issues can be avoided by following best practices when designing the workload, and fixes are less expensive to implement in design phases rather than in production. Operations process and procedures must be thoroughly planned, tested, reviewed. Workloads should evolve and be changed in automated and manageable ways. Changes should be small, frequent, and incremental, all without impacting continuous operations. Operations teams must be prepared to respond to operational events and failures, and have processes in place to learn from them. 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Well-Architected. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query wellarchitected` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).