AWS Well-Architected Framework Review

We recognize that building secure and optimized infrastructure in AWS can be challenging, especially when time and knowledge are not readily available. We hence offer the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review by CloudNation to help you optimize your workloads, streamline your operations and boost your performance in AWS. The Well-Architected Framework Review is a systematic and consistent approach to evaluating your current AWS workloads against AWS best practices and provides you with advice on how to architect workloads for the cloud.

The Review is based on a set of foundational questions across six conceptual areas that are defined by AWS as the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework. We review your workloads in AWS by benchmarking them against best practices in the following pillars:

• Operational Excellence - How do you design your workload to enable operability? How do you manage operational events?
• Security - How are you leveraging AWS service level security features?
• Reliability - How does your system adapt to changes in demand? How are you testing your resiliency?
• Performance Efficiency - How do you select the appropriate instance types for your system? How do you use tradeoffs to improve performance?
• Cost Optimization - Are you considering cost when you select AWS services for your solution? Have you sized your resources to meet your cost targets?
• Sustainability - How can you maximize utilization and minimize the environmental impact of running your cloud workloads?

The Review process basically consists of these steps:

1. Self-assessment via the online Well-Architected Framework Questionnaire;
2. Kick-off meeting to get to know you, your environment in AWS, and the ambitions you might have for your workloads;
3. Analysis of the AWS accounts in scope;
4. Delivery of the WA-Report and an Improvement Plan summarizing the identified improvement points and prioritized recommendations for the key findings, to quickly determine follow-up actions;
5. A closing session with us to jointly go over the findings and determine the best strategy for sustainable implementation of the improvement points;

The remediation of the discussed improvement points is a separate project that can be shaped based on your wishes and experience with the cloud. With our approach, we can take your AWS environment to the next level or alternatively, we can support you in implementing the improvements yourselves.

You can request a Well-Architected Framework Review, by selecting 'Request Private Offer' and providing your contact details. You will receive an email from us to inform you on the next steps and to plan the kick-off meeting. In order to get started, we only need read-only cross-account access to your AWS account and billing console.

We charge $5,000 per Well-Architected Framework Review via the AWS Marketplace. Should the identified improvements and according implementation of these points with follow-up projects result in a significant increase of your total AWS spend, we can leverage the AWS Well-Architected Program funding to request AWS credits (10% of annual spend increase) to offset any project costs.