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When did an expert last review your AWS setup?
Our AWS-certified engineers go through your architecture with you, assess it across security, reliability, performance and cost, and show you exactly what to fix. Hands-on, not just a report.
What it is
A real expert, going through your setup with you.
The AWS Well-Architected Review is a structured assessment where our AWS-certified engineers sit with your team and go through your cloud setup in detail. We assess your architecture across security, reliability, performance, and cost, identify what is working and what is not, and give you a clear, prioritised list of exactly what to fix and in what order. Most organisations running on AWS have accumulated risk they are not aware of. This review surfaces it. It is backed by AWS and completely free for qualifying workloads.
6
Architectural pillars assessed
Comprehensive coverage
Free
For qualifying workloads
AWS-subsidised programme
1 week
Typical turnaround
Discovery to written report
What we assess
Six areas. Every one that matters.
Operational Excellence
- Change management and deployment controls
- Incident response procedures
- Continuous improvement processes
- Monitoring and observability setup
Security
- Identity and access management
- Infrastructure protection controls
- Data privacy and encryption
- Threat detection and response
Reliability
- Workload architecture review
- Failure management at every layer
- Recovery time and point objectives
- Change management safeguards
Performance Efficiency
- Right-sizing compute and storage
- Monitoring for performance degradation
- Architecture trade-off analysis
- Scaling strategy review
Cost Optimisation
- Unused and oversized resource identification
- Reserved and savings plan opportunities
- Cost allocation and tagging review
- Spend visibility and governance
Sustainability
- Workload utilisation and efficiency
- Right-sizing for reduced footprint
- Managed services over self-managed
- Region and architecture optimisation
See how it works
Watch a Well-Architected Review in action.
See how AWS Well-Architected Reviews work and what your team can expect during the process.
How it works
Three steps. One week. No disruption to your team.
Discovery Call
Scoping and preparation
- 30-minute session to understand your workloads
- Team structure and compliance requirements mapped
- Review scope and timeline agreed
- AWS Well-Architected Tool access confirmed
Architecture Review
Assessment across all 6 pillars
- Certified Solutions Architects lead the review
- AWS Well-Architected Tool used throughout
- All six pillars assessed in depth
- Risk items identified and categorised by severity
Findings and Roadmap
Report and live workshop
- Written report with severity-rated risks
- Pillar-by-pillar scorecard with benchmarks
- Prioritised improvement roadmap with effort estimates
- Live workshop walking your team through every finding
What you get
Hands-on. Not just a report.
We do not hand over a PDF and disappear. Every review ends with a live workshop where our engineers sit with your team, walk through every risk item, and answer questions in real time. You leave knowing exactly what to fix and why.
Architecture risk report with severity ratings
Pillar-by-pillar scorecard with AWS benchmark comparisons
Prioritised improvement roadmap with effort estimates
Recommendations mapped to specific AWS services
Executive summary for non-technical stakeholders
Live findings workshop with your team
Get started
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No cost. No sales pitch. Just a real expert going through your AWS setup with you and showing you exactly what to fix.