When organizations build, operate, and manage their AWS Cloud infrastructure, some encounter challenges with implementing best practices and operating efficiently at scale. This guide describes a high-level strategy to help IT leaders accelerate their cloud journey by adopting an existing, well-defined cloud operating model. This model is designed to help you achieve operational excellence in the AWS Cloud. Operational excellence is one of the pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and you can achieve it by implementing best practices for organizing your team, designing your workload, operating it at scale, and evolving it over time.