# PERF01-BP04 Use policies or reference architectures
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 Maximize performance and efficiency by evaluating internal policies and existing reference architectures and using your analysis to select services and configurations for your workload. 

 **Common anti-patterns:** 
+  You allow wide use of technology selection that may impact the management overhead of your company. 

 **Benefits of establishing this best practice:** Establishing a policy for architecture, technology, and vendor choices will allow decisions to be made quickly. 

 **Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established:** Medium 

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 Deploy your workload using existing policies or reference architectures: Integrate the services into your cloud deployment, then use your performance tests to ensure that you can continue to meet your performance requirements. 

## Resources
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 **Related documents:** 
+  [AWS Architecture Center](https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/) 
+  [AWS Partner Network](https://aws.amazon.com/partners/) 
+  [AWS Solutions Library](https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/) 
+  [AWS Knowledge Center](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/) 

 **Related videos:** 
+  [Introducing The Amazon Builders’ Library (DOP328)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKRdemSirDM) 
+  [This is my Architecture](https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/this-is-my-architecture/) 

 **Related examples:** 
+  [AWS Samples](https://github.com/aws-samples) 
+  [AWS SDK Examples](https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples)