Overview
- AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool) is a service in the cloud that provides a consistent process for measuring your architecture using AWS best practices.
- AWS WA Tool helps you throughout the product lifecycle by:
- Assisting with documenting the decisions that you make
- Providing recommendations for improving your workload based on best practices
- Guiding you in making your workloads more reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective
- The framework is based on five pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
Concepts
- A workload identifies a set of components that deliver business value.
- Milestones mark key changes in your architecture as it evolves throughout the product lifecycle — design, testing, go live, and production.
- Lenses provide a way for you to consistently measure your architectures against best practices and identify areas for improvement.
- High risk issues (HRIs) are architectural and operational choices that AWS has found might result in significant negative impact to a business.
- Medium risk issues (MRIs) are architectural and operational choices that AWS has found might negatively impact business, but to a lesser extent than HRIs.
AWS lenses
- AWS Well-Architected Framework Lens, which is applied to all workloads, provide a way for you to consistently measure your architectures against best practices and identify areas for improvement.
- The AWS Serverless Application Lens provides a set of additional questions that enable you to understand how a specific serverless application workload aligns with cloud best practices
- The AWS SaaS Lens provides a set of additional questions for you to consider for your software as a service (SaaS) applications.
- The AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) Lens provides a set of specific questions for independent software vendors (ISVs) to perform a workload self-assessment before requesting a Foundational Technical Review in the AWS Partner Network (APN).
Getting started with AWS Well-Architected Tool
- Provisioning an IAM user
- Defining a workload
- Documenting a workload
- Saving a milestone
Reference
What is AWS Well-Architected Tool? - AWS Well-Architected Tool