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AWS Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR)

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Use the Well Architected Framework Review (WAFR) for analysing your AWS environment and optimise it with a funded remediation

The Well-Architected Review is a great way to get feedback on your AWS architecture. This service is a cloud architecture assessment service that helps you review your workloads against the AWS Well-Architected Framework and mitigate issues. The Framework provides a consistent approach for evaluating architectures and includes best practices for building secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure on AWS.

Step 1: Review Workshop

We start with a workshop where we collaboratively look at the business in terms of the six pillars of Well-Architected operations.

Operational Excellence,  Security,  Cost Optimization,  Performance Efficiency,  Reliability,  Sustainability

The output of the review is a report listing all potential improvement areas and grouping them into High-Risk Issues and Medium-Risk issues.

The review helps identify areas where the architecture could be improved and provides recommendations on how to make those improvements. It is also an excellent opportunity to learn about best practices for AWS architecture and can help avoid potential problems down the road.

Step 2: Selecting the Risks for remediation

We work together to select which Risk Issues will be remediated in the context of the review. In most cases, this will involve the ones that deliver the most benefit to your business and AWS environment.

*If you decide to resolve a minimum 45% of the identified High-Risk Issues (HRIs) with our help you can be eligible for funding in the form of AWS credits upon resolving them.

Step 3: HRI remediation

We continue our collaboration to remediate the agreed HRIs. Through our extensive experience, we’ve created our own template library, as we’ve identified patterns across the many reviews we’ve done. Our Well-Architected team will identify any templates that might apply to your HRIs, or if a custom solution is needed.

What you get with AWS Well-Architected Framework Review

Get rewarded for improving your architecture
Get rewarded for improving your architecture

As an AWS Well-Architected Partner, we can apply for AWS funding to support your remediation progress.

Transparency and Reduced Risks
Transparency and Reduced Risks

The Well-Architected Review will leave you with a full report of your account's current status. With this in hand, you have full transparency of the potential issues that can help you mitigate future risks to your business.

Well-Architected Cloud Operations
Well-Architected Cloud Operations

After the remediation of the Risk Issues, you’re left with a better operating AWS environment which follows the AWS Well-Architected Framework closer.

AWS Well-Architected Partners
AWS Well-Architected Partners

AWS Well-Architected Partners have the expertise to build high-quality solutions, implement best practices, check the state of workloads, and make improvements to fit business and customer needs. As part of the AWS Well-Architected Partner Program, we help our clients establish good architectural habits, reduce risks, and respond faster to changes that affect designs, applications, and workloads.

Accelerated Innovation
Accelerated Innovation

By examining the current state of the architecture, reviewing best practices, and identifying gaps, organisations can develop a roadmap for improving their architecture. This process can help speed up innovation by helping organisations focus on areas that will have the biggest impact.

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AWS Well-Architected Framework Review

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  • A review of your environment according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework

  • Complete workshop and review of 1x workload* / on minimum two pillars

  • Report and plan to mitigate Risk Issues

  • Use the opportunity for applying for AWS Funding

AWS Terms and Conditions apply.
*A workload is a collection of resources and code that delivers business value, such as a customer-facing application or a back-end process. A workload might consist of a subset of resources in a single AWS account or be a collection of multiple resources spanning multiple AWS accounts.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a High-Risk Issue (HRI)?
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A Well-Architected Framework High-Risk Issue (HRI) is a potential issue that could have a negative impact on the security, performance, or availability of your AWS environment. HRIs are identified through the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which is a set of best practices for designing and operating systems in the cloud.

How is an HRI resolved?
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In some cases this can take the form of a CDK template, while in others you might require a set of recommendations so that things like ITIL processes can be implemented further into your organisation.

What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
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The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a set of best practices for designing and building systems on the AWS platform. It covers key areas such as security, high availability, scalability, and performance. The framework provides guidance on how to make decisions around these areas when designing your system.

What is the AWS Well-Architected Partner Program?
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The AWS Well-Architected Partner Program is a program designed to help partners build and deliver well-architected solutions on AWS. The program provides access to resources, best practices, and tools to help partners architect their solutions using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Partners who participate in the program can use the AWS Well-Architected Tool to assess their architectures against the Framework, receive guidance from AWS Solutions Architects, and get access to partner offers.

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