What is AWS Well-Architected Review?
The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures and implement designs that scale over time. Our expert-led Well-Architected Reviews help you understand the pros and cons of decisions you make while building systems on AWS, ensuring your workloads follow AWS best practices.
As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, SquareOps conducts comprehensive reviews across all six pillars of the framework, delivering actionable recommendations to optimize your cloud infrastructure.
The Six Pillars of Well-Architected Framework
Our comprehensive review evaluates your architecture across all six fundamental pillars to ensure optimal cloud performance.
Security
Protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
Reliability
Ensure workloads perform their intended functions correctly and consistently, with the ability to recover from failures.
Performance Efficiency
Use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements and maintain efficiency as demand changes.
Cost Optimization
Run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point while avoiding unnecessary costs.
Operational Excellence
Run and monitor systems to deliver business value and continually improve supporting processes and procedures.
Sustainability
Minimize the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads and implement sustainable cloud computing practices.
Our Well-Architected Review Process
Discovery Phase
We begin by understanding your business objectives, workload architecture, and current infrastructure setup. Our team conducts stakeholder interviews, reviews architectural diagrams, and documents your AWS environment to establish a baseline for the review.
Comprehensive Assessment
Using AWS Well-Architected Tool and our proprietary assessment framework, we evaluate your workloads against 100+ best practice questions across all six pillars. This includes automated scans, manual reviews, and deep-dive sessions with your technical team.
Risk Analysis
Our AWS-certified architects analyze identified issues, categorize risks by severity (High, Medium, Low), and prioritize them based on business impact. We identify security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and operational gaps.
Actionable Recommendations
We deliver a detailed report with specific, prioritized recommendations for each pillar. Each recommendation includes implementation guidance, estimated effort, expected benefits, and AWS service recommendations. We provide a remediation roadmap aligned with your business priorities.
Implementation Support
Our team can help implement the recommendations through hands-on support, infrastructure-as-code templates, automation scripts, and best practice configurations. We work alongside your team to execute the remediation plan with minimal disruption to operations.
Continuous Optimization
We establish ongoing review cycles (quarterly or bi-annual) to ensure your architecture evolves with your business needs and AWS innovations. Regular reviews help maintain compliance, optimize costs, and leverage new AWS services for improved performance.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about AWS Well-Architected Review
What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure. It provides best practices across six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.
How long does a Well-Architected Review take?
A typical Well-Architected Review takes 2-4 weeks depending on workload complexity. This includes discovery sessions, technical assessment, analysis, and delivery of findings with remediation recommendations.
What do I get from a Well-Architected Review?
You receive a detailed report identifying high-risk issues, medium-risk improvements, and optimization opportunities. The report includes prioritized recommendations with implementation guidance and estimated effort.
Are there AWS credits available?
Yes, AWS offers credits for completing Well-Architected Reviews through qualified partners. As an AWS Advanced Partner, we can help you access these credits to offset remediation costs.
How often should we conduct a review?
We recommend conducting a Well-Architected Review annually or after significant architecture changes. Regular reviews ensure your workloads continue to follow best practices as your infrastructure evolves.
Can you help implement the recommendations?
Absolutely. Beyond the review, we provide remediation services to implement high-priority recommendations. We work with your team to address security gaps, improve reliability, and optimize costs.