Amazon Well-Architected Tool
The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review your workloads and compare them to the latest AWS architectural best practices. It provides a consistent process for evaluating architectures and implementing designs that scale over time across five pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization. The tool offers lens catalogs, custom lenses, profiles, review templates, and API-driven extensibility for integration into governance workflows.
APIs
AWS Well-Architected Tool API
The AWS Well-Architected Tool API provides programmatic access to create and manage workloads, lenses, milestones, profiles, review templates, and review reports. It enables int...
Capabilities
Amazon Well-Architected Tool Architecture Governance
Unified workflow for architecture governance using the AWS Well-Architected Tool. Enables cloud architects and governance teams to manage workloads, run lens reviews, track answ...
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Expert-authored review lenses from AWS covering diverse technology and industry-specific pillars, continuously refreshed with latest best practices.
Create organization-specific lenses that combine internal best practices with AWS guidance, shareable with up to 300 IAM users or across AWS Organizations.
Pre-define business goals to auto-generate prioritized review questions tailored to your workload context.
Standardize answers across multiple workloads to ensure consistent architectural reviews at scale.
Share workloads and custom lenses with IAM users or integrate with AWS Organizations for organization-wide access and visibility.
Native integration with AWS Trusted Advisor and AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry to reduce manual review effort.
Robust APIs allow extending Well-Architected functionality into existing architecture governance processes, applications, and workflows.
Save milestones, implement improvements, and measure progress over time with point-in-time snapshots of workload review state.
Available in GovCloud (US) with FedRAMP compliance for organizations with stringent regulatory requirements.
Generate consolidated reports across workloads for governance and executive visibility into architectural risk posture.
Use Cases
Evaluate cloud workload architecture quality against AWS best practices across the five Well-Architected pillars.
Use review templates to standardize architectural answers and enforce consistent governance across multiple workloads and teams.
Apply industry-specific and technology-specific lenses from the lens catalog to assess specialized workloads.
Evaluate workloads for FedRAMP, GovCloud, and other regulatory compliance requirements through targeted lenses.
Integrate Well-Architected reviews into CI/CD workflows and automation pipelines for continuous architecture assessment.
Share workloads with reviewers and stakeholders to facilitate collaborative architectural decision-making across teams.
Use the sustainability pillar to minimize environmental impact and meet organizational sustainability commitments.
Integrations
Integration with AWS Trusted Advisor provides automated checks that complement manual Well-Architected review processes.
AppRegistry integration enables linking Well-Architected workloads to application metadata for richer governance context.
Organization-level sharing of workloads and custom lenses for enterprise-wide architectural governance programs.
Fine-grained access control via AWS IAM for workload sharing and reviewer management within the tool.
Workloads can be associated with CloudFormation stacks for automated resource discovery and architecture documentation.