# Operational Excellence

**Design Principle**

* Perform operations with code
* Align operations processes to business objectives
* Make regular, small, incremental changes
* Test for responses to unexpected events
* Learn from operational events and failures
* Keep operations procedures current

**Operation Excellence in the cloud consists of**

* Preparation
  * Make use of CloudFormation, auto scaling, AWS Config, tagging
* Operation
  * Having Runbooks (daily routine), Playbooks (unexpected operational event handling)
  * CI/CD
* Response
