Well Architected Review (WAR)

Overview

The Well-Architected Framework defines six pillars by which a system can be reviewed to assess how well the system, its people and process are delivering outcomes towards the business needs. Like any general framework, the Well-Architected Framework needs to take into consideration local environment dependencies and objectives, and its recommendations should be evaluated in line with organizations strategies, values and objectives.

Are you wondering whether your application / workload meets AWS best practices? AWS WAR is a short process (3-4 hours) to answer that question. During a WAR Our’s AWS Architect will evaluate your application / workload for all 6 pillars of the Well-Architected Framework. A WAR allows you to discover gaps and define milestones to remediate these gaps. The AWS Well-Architected Tool also allows you to export a WAR report which can be shared with other stakeholders in your organization.

Well Architected Pillars

The WAR process assesses the six pillars of the Well-Architected Framework as follows:

1. Operational Excellence – The ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and continually improve supporting processes and procedures.
2. Security – The ability to protect the information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
3. Reliability – The ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service disruptions, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand, and mitigate disruptions such as misconfigurations or transient network issues.
4. Performance Efficiency – The ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.
5. Cost Optimisation – The ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point.
6. Sustainability - Managing the environmental impacts, especially energy consumption and efficiency, since they are important levers for architects to inform direct action to reduce resource usage.