Policy: AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Performance Efficiency > PERF 01. How do you select the best performing architecture? > Benchmark existing workloads

Benchmark the performance of an existing workload to understand how it performs on the cloud. Use the data collected from benchmarks to drive architectural decisions.

See Benchmark existing workloads for more information.

Targets

This policy targets the following resource types:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Performance Efficiency > PERF 01. How do you select the best performing architecture?

Controls

Setting this policy configures this control:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Performance Efficiency > PERF 01. How do you select the best performing architecture?

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Skip`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Skip` `True` `False`

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Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/turbot#/control/categories/other

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf01Benchmark

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf01Benchmark") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf01Benchmark'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf01Benchmark'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf01Benchmark"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf01Benchmark"