Enable enhanced EC2 capabilities (for example, Elastic Network Adapter, instance store, placement groups).
Implement IAM features (for example, password policies, multi-factor authentication [MFA], roles, SAML, federated identity, resource policies, policy conditions).
Differentiate between the use of a single Availability Zone and Multi-AZ deployments (for example, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups, ELB, Amazon FSx, Amazon RDS).
Monitor RDS metrics and modify the configuration to increase performance efficiency (for example, Performance Insights, RDS Proxy).
Implement S3 performance features (for example, S3 Transfer Acceleration, multipart uploads).
Schedule automated tasks by using AWS services (for example, EventBridge, AWS Config).
Configure Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Amazon Route 53 health checks.
Implement Route 53 routing policies (for example, geolocation, geoproximity).
Implement automated patch management.
Differentiate between horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
Monitor Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) metrics and modify configuration to increase performance efficiency.
Configure Route 53 hosted zones and records.
Recommend compute resources based on performance metrics.
Use AWS services (for example, Systems Manager, CloudFormation) to automate deployment processes.
Configure AWS network protection services (for example, AWS WAF, AWS Shield).
Implement loosely coupled architectures.