Optimize Your Cloud with the Well-Architected Framework

From Design Best Practices to Operational Excellence, Achieve Peak Performance with Expert Guidance

What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review?

The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a collection of basic concepts, design principles and best practices for designing, building and managing cloud environments in AWS. The Well-Architected Framework Review offers a structured approach to gain insight into the current application of AWS best practices and to identify areas for improvement. The Review is based on a set of questions, testing best practices in the six ‘pillars’ of the Well-Architected Framework:

  • Operational Excellence – focuses on monitoring and management of systems and the continuous improvement and automation of both human and digital processes

  • Security – focuses on protecting systems and data and the utilization of security & compliance services and features to achieve that

  • Reliability – focuses on safeguarding consistent workload performance and measures to deal with incidents

  • Performance Efficiency – focuses on optimizing resource configuration to achieve a proper balance between performance and cost efficiency

  • Cost Optimization – focuses on preventing unnecessary costs and monitoring and controlling cloud spend

  • Sustainability – focuses on minimizing environmental effects by running cloud workloads

When is the Well-Architected Framework Review extra valuable?

It is always valuable to have an experienced external party scrutinize your AWS environment, but even more so where the following scenarios are concerned:

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Before a platform or application goes live
Following/during the architectural design of a new environment
Before expanding or upscaling an environment
Before performing a (security) audit

The steps of the WAFR process:

When you have submitted your request, we will send you an email to inform you about the next steps and to plan the kick-off meeting. We require read-only access to your AWS account and billing console to get started. We will go through the following steps:

  1. Assessment: Your team receives a questionnaire and answers fundamental questions regarding the AWS Well-Architected Framework. CloudNation in the meantime analyzes the AWS accounts in question and plans a kick-off meeting.
  2. Kick-off: A meeting is planned to get to know you and your AWS workloads, and to clearly explain how the process will proceed.
  3. Reporting & selection: The Well-Architected Report is generated with all the findings and an improvement plan with a list of prioritized high risks that must be quickly resolved.
  4. Remediation: A selection of the identified high-risk issues is dealt with (at least 45% of the high-risk issues is resolved).
  5. Wrap-up: The improvements are discussed and next steps to further optimize the workload are identified.

Our services are tailored to help you meet core cloud architecture requirements, implement best practices, and maintain continuous improvement. ICS provides Well-Architected Framework services to:

Implement robust processes and procedures to ensure continuous improvement and operational efficiency.

Safeguard data, systems, and assets by applying best practices to protect against threats and ensure compliance with industry standards.

Design systems that recover quickly from failures and maintain continuous availability, ensuring business continuity.

Optimize resource utilization to meet performance requirements while minimizing waste and costs.

Implement strategies to manage and reduce costs, ensuring financial efficiency and effective resource allocation.

Ready to optimize your cloud architecture with the Well-Architected Framework?

Contact ICS to ensure reliability, security, and efficiency for your cloud environment.