How often do Ace's hold up when they are the down cards?

[nuclear500]

Friendly home game on Monday night (that I happened to be dominating) where we play multiple Poker styles, but 7 card seems to be catching on more recently.

I'm dealt (AA)J and I look over at my two opponents and see a 4 up and a 8. I (naturally) raise out the betting and get the one caller, his next card is a 5 and again not fearing anything I bet out again and he raises me 2x so I put him all in (not a no limit game, but our max raise allowed me to do this to his short stack).

Needless to say he was going for a straight or flush and in the end my two Ace's held up.

I figured it was the best move, I knew my Ace's were good and I would rather get any guessing out of the way for the rest of the hand.

How do you guys think I played it? I think I played it perfectly considering his short stack and the fella's penchant for betting at pots with not a whole lot.