Understanding the economies of scale (for example, cost savings)
Understanding the benefits of global infrastructure (for example, speed of deployment, global reach)
Understanding the advantages of high availability, elasticity, and agility
Understanding the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework (for example, operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, sustainability)
Identifying differences between the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework
Understanding the benefits of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) (for example, reduced business risk; improved environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance; increased revenue; increased operational efficiency)
Identifying appropriate migration strategies (for example, database replication, use of AWS Snowball)
Understanding the role of fixed costs compared with variable costs
Understanding costs that are associated with on-premises environments
Understanding the differences between licensing strategies (for example, Bring Your Own License [BYOL] model compared with included licenses)
Understanding the concept of rightsizing
Identifying benefits of automation (for example, provisioning and configuration management with AWS CloudFormation)
Identifying managed AWS services (for example, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Container Service [Amazon ECS], Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service [Amazon EKS], Amazon DynamoDB
Recognizing the components of the AWS shared responsibility model
Describing the customer’s responsibilities on AWS
Describing AWS responsibilities