AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 509

Which of the following are pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. High availability
• B. Performance efficiency
• C. Cost optimization
• D. Going global in minutes
• E. Continuous development

Correct answer: B, C

Explanation

Performance efficiency and Cost optimization are two of the six official pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, alongside Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, and Sustainability. While high availability is an important architectural goal and rapid global deployment is a benefit of cloud computing, they are not designated as individual pillars of the framework.