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Category: AWS Well-Architected Tool

Track your workload’s risks with the new AWS Well-Architected Tool Connector for Jira

The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a collection of best practices that helps customers build and operate secure, high-performing, resilient, and cost-effective workloads on the AWS Cloud. With the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool), you can review the state of your applications and workloads against architectural best practices, identify opportunities for improvement, and track progress […]

The Migration Well-Architected Review – a Mechanism to validate your migration for AWS best practices.

On January 24, we announced the availability of the AWS Well-Architected Migration Lens whitepaper. The Migration Lens extends the Well-Architected Framework to include best practices and implementation guidance you apply to your migration program across the three migration phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate. The AWS Well-Architected Framework comprises design principles, and best practices across six […]

Expand the depth of Well-Architected Reviews with the new Lens Catalog Feature

The AWS Well-Architected Tool (WA Tool) helps you define and review workloads based on the latest AWS architectural best practices. This allows you to consistently identify areas of strength and improvement in your workloads. During a Well-Architected review, you answer questions to evaluate your architecture and receive an improvement plan detailing any high or medium […]

Scale your workload reviews with the new Review Templates feature in the AWS Well-Architected Tool

Scale your workload reviews with the new Review Templates feature in the AWS Well-Architected Tool

The AWS Well-Architected Tool (WA Tool) helps you define and review workloads based on the latest AWS architectural best practices. This allows you to identify areas of strength and improvement in your workloads consistently. You answer questions to evaluate your architecture and receive an improvement plan detailing any high or medium risk issues discovered, along […]

How to perform a Well-Architected Framework Review- Part 3

In previous blog posts, we discussed the first two phases for running a Well-Architected Framework Review, or WAFR. The first phase is to Prepare and the second phase in to conduct the Review. In this blog post, we dive deep into the third phase: Improve. Figure-1 WAFR Phases What is the Improve phase? At this […]

How to perform a Well-Architected Framework Review- Part 2

There are three phases to conduct a successful Well-Architected Framework Review or WAFR: Prepare, Review and Improve. In part 1 of this blog series, we discussed the preparation phase. In this part, we will dive deep into the best practices of the second phase, the actual review. Figure-1 WAFR Phases Assuming you follow the recommendations […]

How to perform a Well-Architected Framework Review- Part 1

Is my workload well-architected? Is my team following cloud best practices? How do other customers implement solution X? What is the best way to configure service Y? These are examples of questions I usually get from my customers who want to validate if their architecture is aligned with AWS best practices. The answers to these […]

Prioritize business-critical needs with the Profiles feature in the AWS Well-Architected Tool

The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a collection of design principles, concepts, and best practices that helps cloud architects build and operate secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for a variety of applications and workloads. Using the Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR), organizations can measure their cloud workloads against the AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices to help […]

Scale AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews with the new Consolidated Report

Scale AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews with the new Consolidated Report

AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews help you improve your workload‘s architecture by identifying risks that require attention across the six pillars of the framework. However, after identifying the risks in your architecture, you need to prioritize them and create an improvement strategy to address them. Using Consolidated Report, a new feature added recently to AWS Well-Architected […]

Scale Operational Readiness Reviews with AWS Well-Architected Tool

In this blog post, learn how to scale out an operational readiness review (ORR) in your organization by using the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool) and its Custom Lens capability. The AWS WA Tool ‘Custom Lens’ feature was launched in Nov 2021 and makes it a single place for you to review and measure best practices across your […]