Policy: AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Performance Efficiency > PERF 04. How do you select your database solution? > Choose data storage based on access patterns

Use the access patterns of the workload to decide which services and technologies to use. For example, utilize a relational database for workloads that require transactions, or a key-value store that provides higher throughput but is eventually consistent where applicable.

See Choose data storage based on access patterns for more information.

Resource Types

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 04. How do you select your database solution?

Controls

Policy Specification

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

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

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

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf04AccessPatterns

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf04AccessPatterns") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf04AccessPatterns'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf04AccessPatterns'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf04AccessPatterns"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf04AccessPatterns"