The BJSS’ Well-Architected Review is the first step to optimising your application architecture running on AWS, increasing it's scalability, flexibility and performance.

During a BJSS' AWS Well-Architected Review, we will focus on the following key areas:

• Automated Workload Scan: Analysis of existing architecture, technical debt and technical limitations of current platform
• Identify Key Stakeholders: Business Stakeholders, IT Operations, Security officers and Data administrators
• Deep Dive Q&A: Understand platform limitations and business impact
• Report Preparation: Create a report based on findings and consolidate into one easily understood document
• Report Presentation Present key findings to stakeholders and jointly agree the next steps.
• Optional Deliver Priority Remediations: Deliver agreed high-priority remediations in collaboration with your team.

Benefits of a Well-Architected Review:

1. Build and deploy faster: Reduce firefighting, manage capacity with automation, experiment and release frequently
2. Make informed decisions: Ensure you have made active architectural decisions that are relevant to your business outcomes
3. Learn AWS Best Practices: Making sure teams are aware of best practices, refined across many workloads
4. Lower or mitigate risks: Understand where you have risks, address them before they impact your business

Scope of Services

• Review documentation and configurations
• Interview stakeholders
• Assess findings against all 6 pillars of the AWS Well Architected Framework.
• Optional for Free: Use BJSS licenses for Trend Micro Cloud One Conformity to automate configuration inspection
• Optional for Free: Leverage the BJSS-Strategic Blue Portal for free Cost Optimisation and savings review.
• Identify issues and risks
• Document prioritised remediation recommendations
• Deliver findings report

Timeline: 7 Days

• Day 1-2: Interviews, documentation review, Cloud Conformity scan
• Day 3: Assess pillars, compile findings and recommendations
• Day 4-7: Present findings to stakeholders and as an option deliver on agreed high-priority remediations in collaboration with your team

Deliverables

• Well-Architected Review Report
• Presentation of findings
• Costs savings report
• Oversight and support remediating high priority findings

Pre-requisites

• Access to stakeholders for interviews
• IAM policies created to allow Cloud Conformity to scan AWS accounts
• Access to the AWS Cost and Usage report to conduct a savings report.

Acceptance Criteria

• Services completed upon delivery of report and presentation after 4 days.
• A limited number of high-priority remediations conducted in collaboration with your team and oversight with a BJSS AWS platform engineer.