AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

The correct answer is Learn to improve from operational failures.

Explanation:

This principle is part of the Operational Excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. It emphasizes:

• Learning from failures: When operational events occur, teams should perform post-incident analysis to understand what happened and implement improvements

• Continuous improvement: Using lessons learned from failures to enhance processes, procedures, and systems

• Evolving operations: Making incremental improvements based on real-world experience

Why the other options are incorrect:

• Option A: "Reduce downtime by making infrastructure changes infrequently and in large increments" - This contradicts the Well-Architected principle of making small, frequent, reversible changes to reduce risk

• Option B: "Invest the time to configure infrastructure manually" - This goes against the automation principle; Well-Architected recommends using infrastructure as code and automation

• Option D: "Use monolithic application design for centralization" - This contradicts the microservices and loose coupling principles; Well-Architected favors distributed, decoupled architectures

The AWS Well-Architected Framework includes five pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization. Learning from operational failures is a key operational excellence practice.