What to Expect from a Well-Architected Review
A Well-Architected Review isn’t an audit. It’s not a pass/fail exam. It’s a structured conversation about your cloud workloads that identifies risks, highlights improvements, and gives you a clear plan to make things better.
How it works
The review is built around six pillars:
- Operational Excellence - how you run and monitor your workloads
- Security - protecting your data and systems
- Reliability - recovering from failures and meeting demand
- Performance Efficiency - using resources effectively
- Cost Optimisation - avoiding unnecessary spend
- Sustainability - minimising environmental impact
For each pillar, we work through a series of questions about your architecture, processes, and practices. It’s collaborative - we’re not there to judge, we’re there to find opportunities.
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