Overview
Engagement Process
AI Agent Architecture & Governance Assessment for AWS
Stacksona provides evidence-based technical assessments for organizations developing, deploying, or scaling AI agents on AWS.
We review your agent architecture, permissions, security boundaries, tool integrations, approval pathways, audit evidence, and operational controls. You receive a written technical report identifying potential gaps, practical recommendations, implementation alternatives, and a prioritized 30/60/90-day improvement roadmap.
What We Evaluate
Depending on your architecture, the assessment may consider Amazon Bedrock, Amazon EKS, AWS IAM, AWS CloudTrail, AWS KMS, and related services.
Our framework covers eight areas:
- Security Boundaries: Trust boundaries between users, models, tools, networks, and data.
- Identity and Permissions: Agent identities, effective permissions, role boundaries, and least-privilege controls.
- Agent Governance: Policy enforcement, approval requirements, exceptions, and human oversight.
- Reliability and Recovery: Timeouts, retries, idempotency, interrupted workflows, and failure handling.
- Auditability: Decision traceability, application-level evidence, logging coverage, and audit access controls.
- Operational Complexity: Deployment patterns, change management, monitoring, ownership, and maintainability.
- Scalability and Cost Exposure: Workload growth, quotas, concurrency, rate limits, and resource-use controls.
- Tool and Multi-Agent Coordination: Agent handoffs, delegated authority, tool contracts, and cross-agent traceability.
Findings are grounded in agreed customer-provided evidence and distinguish observed information, customer-reported details, and areas requiring further validation.
Five-Stage Engagement
1. Customer Intake: Confirm scope and collect relevant architecture diagrams, documentation, workflow descriptions, and authorized configuration information through an agreed submission process.
2. Technical Discovery: A 60-minute consultation to understand your environment, objectives, workflows, and existing controls.
3. Architecture and Governance Assessment: Review the agreed evidence across the eight assessment areas and develop technical findings and recommendations.
4. Written Assessment Report: Deliver an evidence-based report with architecture observations, potential security and governance gaps, implementation alternatives, technical tradeoffs, and a prioritized improvement roadmap.
5. Findings and Advisory Consultation: A final 60-minute session to review the report, discuss recommendations, and clarify implementation options.
What You Receive
The written technical assessment report includes:
- Executive summary and current architecture observations
- Potential architecture, security, and governance gaps
- Evidence-supported findings and validation limitations
- Practical technical recommendations
- Alternative implementation approaches and tradeoffs
- Suggested architecture improvements
- Prioritized 30/60/90-day improvement roadmap
The report is designed to help your engineering team plan and implement improvements independently.
Standard Engagement Scope
The standard assessment covers one defined AI agent system, one primary AWS deployment environment, and up to two representative agent workflows.
It includes review of agreed customer-provided documentation and configuration evidence, two 60-minute consultations, and one written technical assessment report.
Penetration testing, formal compliance certification, comprehensive source-code security auditing, implementation work, and ongoing infrastructure management are not included. Larger or more complex assessments may be scoped separately.
Practical Implementation Choices
Recommendations may compare AWS-native controls, custom implementations, and third-party governance solutions.
Stacksona also develops Stacksona Gate, an AI agent governance and policy enforcement platform. Gate may be presented as an optional implementation approach when relevant. Purchasing Gate is never required to receive the assessment.
Getting Started
Contact Stacksona through AWS Marketplace to discuss your architecture, confirm assessment scope, and agree on engagement terms.
Pricing and final scope are established through an AWS Marketplace private offer.
Highlights
- Evidence-based assessment of AI agent architecture and governance across eight areas: security boundaries, identity and permissions, agent governance, reliability and recovery, auditability, operational complexity, scalability and cost exposure, and tool and multi-agent coordination. Findings identify the supporting evidence and any limitations requiring further validation.
- Receive a written technical assessment report with architecture observations, potential security and governance gaps, practical recommendations, alternative implementation approaches, relevant tradeoffs, and a prioritized 30/60/90-day improvement roadmap your engineering team can use independently.
- Structured five-stage engagement covering customer intake, a 60-minute technical discovery consultation, architecture and governance analysis, written report delivery, and a 60-minute findings consultation. Recommendations may compare AWS-native services, custom implementations, and third-party solutions without requiring a software purchase.
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The standard Stacksona AI Agent Architecture & Governance Assessment includes two 60-minute consultations:
Technical Discovery Consultation: Review the customer's architecture, workflows, objectives, documentation, and assessment scope.
Findings and Advisory Consultation: Review the written assessment report, discuss findings and implementation alternatives, and explain the prioritized improvement roadmap.
Pre-Engagement Inquiries
For questions about scope, scheduling, suitability, or deliverables, contact Stacksona at eric@stacksona.com .
Stacksona responds to initial AWS Marketplace professional services inquiries within two business days.
Post-Engagement Clarification
Following delivery of the report and the findings consultation, customers may contact Stacksona for clarification regarding the delivered assessment and recommendations.
Additional analysis, implementation services, expanded assessments, and ongoing advisory work require a separately agreed scope.
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