Centric Consulting Well-Architected Review for Energy and Utilities

Centric has an established track record of assisting clients in the Energy and Utilities space, ensuring that the Well-Architected Review process is tailored to your needs and can support all your key production workloads on AWS.

Our Well-Architected review and remediation process provides the insights your organization requires to baseline your AWS infrastructure and safeguard your key applications through our tailormade approach. Using the AWS Well-Architected Framework as a model, we offer insight into your workloads as well as step-by-step guidance to a better, more cost-efficient cloud when you need it.

Our Approach

Step 1: Discovery Before we undertake any review, our AWS Solution Architect and Energy and Utilities lead will schedule an introductory call to discuss with your stakeholders the workloads in scope and understand both the infrastructure as well as the business purpose to maximize the review time and anticipated outcomes. Leveraging our unique industry expertise, we will also make recommendations on common best practices and trends.

Step 2: Well-Architected Review Workshop Our AWS Certified Solutions Architects leverage their expertise to undertake a deep-dive review into the performance of your existing AWS workloads through a half-day collaborative workshop. During this workshop, the Centric cloud architects will perform a deep dive into your landing zone and workload configurations.

Step 3: Report Development + Findings Presentation + Next Steps From our discovery, workshop, and environment review, we then develop an action plan with you to carry out recommended remediations. This report will include the recommendations sorted by priority and impact, associated levels of effort, dependencies, high-level costs, and anticipated timeline.

Once an action plan is agreed upon, we will also assist you in applying for $5,000 of AWS service credits* to offset against the costs of Centric carrying out the recommended improvements or remediation work.

Core Benefits of the AWS Well-Architected Review • Reduce potential security and compliance risks • Support faster build and deployment timeframes • Improve reliability and availability of AWS services • Ensure consistency and reduce redundancies across your cloud strategy • Reduce potential costs and identify organizational efficiencies • Support a continuous improvement approach within your organization

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Key features: • Half day review, deep dive session of the chosen workloads. • The review will be focused on ensuring that your AWS architecture has been architected using a consistent approach as outlined by AWS. • The review will cover 6 key pillars - Operational excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. • Creation of a comprehensive report, highlighting all high-level, and medium-level risks. • An agreed set of high-level risks to be remediated by Centric will be provided. A minimum of 45 percent of recommended remediations must be performed to be qualified for the AWS service credit. • An action plan will be provided to guide the remediation of the rest of the risks identified.

*TERMS AND CONDITIONS As a certified AWS Well-Architected Review Partner: • Centric will work with you to identify the selected production workload(s) eligible for the program. • We will then undertake a Well-Architected Review of the eligible workload(s) and provide a report of the findings based on the Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR) model. In general, our review process will encompass up to 4 workloads, unless otherwise determined. • The report will identify areas of high and medium risk as measured against the AWS Well-Architected Framework Lens, and the recommended improvement or remediation items identified in the eligible workload(s). • We will assist you in applying for $5,000 of AWS service credits from AWS to offset against the costs of Centric carrying out the improvement or remediation work. • There must be a minimum of 45% of high-risk items remediated to be eligible for program funding.