Which of the following is a Well-Architected Framework design principle for building cloud applications?

The correct answer is "Design for automated recovery from failure." This is a core principle of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, specifically under the Reliability pillar. It emphasizes building systems that can automatically detect and recover from failures without manual intervention, improving resilience and reducing downtime. "Keep static data closer to compute resources" is generally a good practice for performance, but it's not one of the six explicit pillars or design principles of the Well-Architected Framework. "Provision resources for peak capacity" is an anti-pattern in the cloud. The cloud allows for elasticity, meaning you should provision based on actual demand, not just peak, to optimize costs. "Use tightly coupled components" is also an anti-pattern. The Well-Architected Framework promotes loosely coupled components to increase resilience and allow for independent scaling and failure isolation.