Well-Architected Framework Reviews
Systematic pillar-by-pillar assessment of your AWS or Azure environment against cloud provider best practices — with a clear, prioritised remediation roadmap.
Why a Well-Architected Review?
AWS and Azure both publish comprehensive Well-Architected Frameworks — battle-tested principles distilled from thousands of production workloads. Most cloud environments drift away from these principles over time as teams prioritise feature delivery over architectural hygiene. A formal review surfaces those gaps before they become incidents, compliance failures, or runaway costs.
As an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, I conduct these reviews with the depth of someone who has architected and operated the environments being assessed — not just read the documentation.
What the Engagement Covers
AWS Well-Architected (6 Pillars)
- Operational Excellence: Deployment practices, runbooks, observability coverage, and incident response readiness.
- Security: IAM posture, network controls, data encryption, secrets management, and compliance alignment.
- Reliability: Multi-AZ redundancy, auto-scaling configurations, backup and DR coverage, and failure mode analysis.
- Performance Efficiency: Right-sizing, instance family selection, caching layers, and CDN utilisation.
- Cost Optimisation: Reservation coverage, stale resource elimination, and spend governance guardrails.
- Sustainability: Workload efficiency and rightsizing recommendations mapped to carbon footprint reduction.
Azure Well-Architected (5 Pillars)
- Reliability: SLA alignment, zone redundancy, chaos engineering readiness, and failover automation.
- Security: Azure Defender coverage, RBAC model review, Private Endpoint adoption, and Key Vault hygiene.
- Cost Optimisation: Advisor recommendations, reservation planning, Azure Hybrid Benefit utilisation, and budget alerts.
- Operational Excellence: Azure Monitor coverage, alerting maturity, IaC adoption, and release pipeline quality.
- Performance Efficiency: Scaling policies, SKU selection, regional latency, and storage tier alignment.
Deliverables
Documented findings per pillar with severity ratings and supporting evidence.
Prioritised remediation backlog with effort estimates and quick wins identified.
Walkthrough of findings and recommendations with your engineering and leadership teams.
Key decisions and trade-offs documented for future reference and onboarding.
Related Case Studies
Engagements where architectural review principles directly shaped the outcome.
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Get a clear picture of where your environment stands — and a concrete plan to close the gaps.