Overview
iOCO provides independent, evidence-based assurance that your AWS workload delivers the security, resilience, operational effectiveness and business value your organisation expects.
We combine the AWS Well-Architected Framework with customer business requirements, workload context, live AWS evidence and relevant industry standards.
We validate the relationship between:
What Your Business Requires
We establish why the workload matters and what the organisation needs it to deliver.
This includes: Business criticality
- Customer and user impact
- Revenue or public-service dependency
- Data sensitivity
- Availability requirements
- Recovery objectives
- Regulatory obligations
- Operational ownership
- Growth and modernisation priorities
What the Architecture Promises
We review the approved architecture, project commitments and intended control environment.
This may include:
- Solution architecture documents
- Statements of work
- Security requirements
- Availability commitments
- Backup and disaster-recovery designs
- Operating models
- Previous assessments
- Audit findings
- Compliance policies
What the Customer Receives
- Business context assessment
- Workload context assessment
- Six-pillar AWS Well-Architected Review
- Live AWS environment discovery
- Architecture-versus-deployment validation
- Security and resilience assessment
- Backup and recovery evaluation
- Operational-effectiveness findings
- Compliance and industry-standard alignment
- Cost and optimisation analysis
- Evidence-backed risk register
- Executive summary for leadership
- Prioritised remediation roadmap
- Indicative implementation effort
- Expected AWS cost impact
- Ownership and decision register
Who Is This Service For?
The service is designed for organisations with: Business-critical AWS workloads Customer-facing digital platforms Regulated or sensitive information SaaS and multi-tenant platforms Public-sector or national systems Recent outages or security concerns Upcoming audits or compliance reviews Rapid AWS growth Unclear disaster-recovery capability Stale Well-Architected assessments Complex multi-account AWS environments Workloads approaching go-live Concerns about implementation or supplier delivery
Why iOCO?
iOCO is a confirmed AWS Well-Architected Partner with experience helping customers plan, architect, migrate, operate and improve workloads on AWS.
Our approach combines:
- AWS architectural expertise
- Business and workload discovery
- Live technical evidence
- Application and infrastructure coverage
- Industry and regulatory context
- Cost and effort modelling
- Executive-level communication
- Practical remediation capability
We do not simply score the workload.
We provide the evidence, decisions and improvement roadmap required to protect the business outcome.
Get Started
To initiate an engagement, request a scoping session through AWS Marketplace or visit our dedicated consultation page to book a discovery call with our Well-Architected team.
Highlights
- Business Assurance - Validate whether your AWS workload supports the customers, services, revenue, compliance obligations and strategic outcomes that depend on it. The engagement produces an evidence-backed risk register and executive summary that quantify exposure across business-critical dimensions, giving leadership the clarity needed to prioritise investment and protect business value.
- Operational Assurance - Confirm that monitoring, patching, backup, detection, incident response and recovery controls work in practice - not merely that they have been configured. Live AWS evidence is collected and compared against your stated recovery objectives and availability requirements to surface gaps before they cause outages.
- Delivery Assurance - Compare the live AWS environment with the approved architecture, contractual commitments and expected service outcomes. The assessment produces a prioritised remediation roadmap with indicative implementation effort and expected AWS cost impact, enabling your team to act on findings immediately.
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Post-Engagement Support
iOCO provides support throughout and after the Well-Architected Workload Assurance engagement.
During the Engagement Your dedicated assessment lead is available via email and scheduled calls throughout the discovery, assessment and reporting phases. Questions about findings, evidence or methodology are addressed within the engagement timeline.
After Delivery Following report delivery, iOCO offers a post-engagement support window during which your team can ask clarifying questions about findings, the remediation roadmap, or implementation priorities.
How to Reach Us For enquiries, scoping requests, or support, contact iOCO through the AWS Marketplace messaging feature or visit https://ioco.uk/ to connect with our Well-Architected team.
Remediation and Ongoing Services If your organisation requires implementation support to address findings from the assessment, iOCO can provide a separate remediation engagement scoped from the prioritised roadmap delivered as part of this service.