Keeping up with dynamic business markets can be challenging for in-house IT teams. Misconfigurations can easily go unnoticed especially when dealing with multiple AWS workloads.  An AWS Well-Architected Review can help ensure AWS environments are configured to meet the needs of demanding organizations and their users

How does an AWS Well-Architected Review work?

By utilizing the 5 Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework the Well-Architected Review systematically evaluates your AWS environment workloads.  Our trained Well-Architected Reviewers are AWS certified cloud architects who will guide you through the 5 Pillar framework to achieve the best practices for tighten security, optimized performance, enhanced reliability, operation efficiency and cost optimization.

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Tighter Security – A comprehensive risk assessment helps to shore up your security strategy

Greater Compliance – Spot exposed resources and non-compliant practices

Improved Performance – Optimize resource utilization for maximum performance

Reduced Spend – Find ways to reduce monthly cloud costs

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Benefits of an AWS Well-Architected Review

Discover immediate cost saving and performance gains by optimizing your workloads

Capture a competitive advantage by modernizing your AWS cloud architecture with the Well-Architected Framework.

Stay relevant with the latest and greatest AWS services that can provide immediate value to your business

Deliver value across your organization by aligning your technical capabilities with business needs

Mitigate Risk and Issues by identify security and compliance vulnerabilities

Improve cost, security, reliability, operation excellence, and performance efficiency through actionable insights

What are the 5 Pillars of a Well-Architected Review?

Designed to help cloud architects, the 5 Pillars provide a consistent approach for evaluating your AWS architecture against the needs of the organization and Proven AWS best practices.

Operational excellence focuses on managing systems to deliver business value and continually improve processes and procedures. Key topics include:

  • managing and automating changes

  • responding to events

  • defining standards for daily operations

Security focuses on protecting information and systems. Key topics include:

  • maintaining the confidentiality and integrity of data

  • privilege management

  • detecting security events

Reliability focuses on preventing and quickly recovering from failures to meet business and customer demand. Key topics include:

  • the fundamentals of setup

  • cross-project requirements

  • recovery planning

  • handling change

Cost Optimization focuses on managing and optimizing cloud spend. Key topics include:

  • understanding and controlling spend

  • selecting the most appropriate and right number of resource types

  • analyzing spend over time

  • cost-effectively scaling to meet business needs

Performance efficiency focuses on managing cloud-based resources to meet the performance needs of the business. Key topics include:

  • selecting the right resource types and sizes

  • monitoring performance

  • maintaining efficiency as business needs evolve

Benefits of a WSM-Led Well-Architected Review

Many of the customers that ask us to perform a Well-Architected Review for their AWS workloads are fully qualified to complete the project themselves. They simply prefer to leverage an outside perspective for a variety of reasons, such as:

Multi-Cloud Expertise

Many of these organizations have workloads deployed in other cloud environments, such as Azure. WSM has the breadth of expertise to adapt the AWS Well-Architected Review to these environments.

Speed

At WSM, we have multiple AWS certified architects who have been trained and certified by AWS to conduct Well-Architected Reviews. We will collaborate with your in-house team, saving you the time and expense of training your internal team to conduct a review.

Focus

IT departments have a lot on their plate these days. When you engage us to conduct your Well-Architected Review, you can be sure we’ll see the project through to completion. Because we offer additional Managed Services, we can also help you execute the AWS best practice recommendations.

Objectivity

Organizations often find that their in-house team may be too close to an issue to provide an objective response to the questions included in the AWS Well-Architected Tool. We can help you ensure potential problems aren’t being buried or glossed over.

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*To qualify for AWS credit, 25% of any high-risk items (HRIs) must be resolved within 30 days of the review.

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Our Cloud architects will perform a systematic evaluation of your AWS workloads and help you adopt the latest best practices that can help you deliver the technical results your business needs – while optimizing cost and identifying security gaps in your current workloads.

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