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6 Pillars • 50+ Best Practices

Well-Architected Review AWS • Azure • GCP

A cloud architecture assessment of your environment against the Well-Architected Framework. Identify risks, validate best practices, and get a prioritized improvement roadmap.

Starting at$7,5002-week delivery
6 Pillars
Complete Coverage
50+
Best Practices Checked
2 weeks
Assessment Delivery
100%
Actionable Findings

The 6 Well-Architected Pillars

Comprehensive assessment across all dimensions of cloud architecture excellence

Critical Priority

Security

Protect information, systems, and assets

  • Identity and access management
  • Detection and response controls
  • Infrastructure protection
  • Data protection and encryption
  • Incident response readiness
High Priority

Reliability

Recover from failures and meet demand

  • Distributed system design
  • Recovery procedures
  • Change management
  • Failure handling
  • Workload scaling
Medium Priority

Performance

Use resources efficiently at scale

  • Compute optimization
  • Storage selection
  • Database performance
  • Network optimization
  • Scaling strategies
Medium Priority

Cost Optimization

Eliminate waste and optimize spend

  • Cost governance
  • Resource right-sizing
  • Commitment utilization
  • Data transfer optimization
  • Architecture efficiency
Medium Priority

Operational Excellence

Run and monitor systems effectively

  • Organization and culture
  • Preparation and planning
  • Operations automation
  • Observability
  • Evolution and improvement
Low Priority

Sustainability

Minimize environmental impact

  • Region selection
  • User behavior patterns
  • Software patterns
  • Data patterns
  • Hardware patterns

Common Findings We Discover

Issues found across 100+ Well-Architected Reviews

CriticalSecurity

Missing MFA on root accounts

Found in 68% of reviews

HighReliability

No automated backups or DR plan

Found in 54% of reviews

MediumCost

Over-provisioned instances

Found in 82% of reviews

MediumPerformance

No auto-scaling configured

Found in 61% of reviews

HighOperations

Missing runbooks for incidents

Found in 73% of reviews

LowSustainability

Resources in high-carbon regions

Found in 45% of reviews

What's Included

Comprehensive deliverables for actionable improvement

Executive Summary

Board-ready overview of architecture health, critical risks, and prioritized recommendations

Pillar Assessments

Detailed findings for each Well-Architected pillar with risk ratings and evidence

Risk Matrix

Prioritized list of issues by business impact and remediation effort

Architecture Diagrams

Current-state and recommended target-state architecture visualizations

Remediation Roadmap

Phased implementation plan with effort estimates and dependencies

Best Practices Checklist

50+ best practices with compliance status and gap analysis

Review Process

Structured assessment delivered in 2 weeks

Day 1-2

Discovery

Gather architecture documentation, access cloud environments, and understand business context.

1
Day 3-7

Technical Analysis

Deep-dive into each Well-Architected pillar with automated and manual assessments.

2
Day 8-9

Risk Assessment

Prioritize findings by business impact, likelihood, and remediation complexity.

3
Day 10-12

Recommendations

Develop detailed remediation strategies with architecture recommendations.

4
Day 13-14

Report Delivery

Present findings with executive summary and detailed technical documentation.

5

Pricing

Choose the scope that matches your environment

Essentials

For smaller environments

$7,500

Up to 50 resources

1 week delivery

  • All 6 pillars assessed
  • Risk prioritization matrix
  • Executive summary
  • 30-day action plan
  • 1 walkthrough session
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Most Popular

Standard

Complete assessment

$15,000

Up to 200 resources

2 week delivery

  • Everything in Essentials, plus:
  • Detailed architecture diagrams
  • Remediation effort estimates
  • 90-day improvement roadmap
  • 2 walkthrough sessions
  • Implementation guidance
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Enterprise

Multi-account/region

Custom

Unlimited resources

3-4 week delivery

  • Everything in Standard, plus:
  • Multi-account assessment
  • Cross-region analysis
  • Custom compliance mapping
  • Quarterly follow-ups
  • Implementation support credits
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The Impact of Well-Architected Reviews

What our clients typically find and fix after a comprehensive review

Average Findings by Pillar

Across 100+ PlatOps Well-Architected Reviews

Security14 avg findings
Cost Optimization11 avg findings
Reliability9 avg findings
Performance Efficiency7 avg findings
Operational Excellence8 avg findings
Sustainability4 avg findings
Average total findings per review53 findings

Pillar Scores: Before & After

Average improvement after implementing recommendations

Security
Before
42%
After
91%
Cost Optimization
Before
35%
After
85%
Reliability
Before
50%
After
92%
Performance
Before
55%
After
88%
53
Avg findings per review
40%
Avg cost savings found
Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

A Well-Architected Review is a structured cloud architecture review. Instead of an ad-hoc checklist, it scores your environment against the framework your provider publishes: the AWS Well-Architected Framework, the Azure Well-Architected Framework, or the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework. All three cover security, reliability, performance, cost, and operational excellence (AWS and Google Cloud add sustainability), so the assessment finds risks across all of them, not just one.

Native tools like AWS Well-Architected Tool provide self-assessment questionnaires. We provide expert-led analysis with context, prioritization, and actionable remediation plans. We also work across AWS, Azure, and GCP with consistent methodology.

Read-only access to your cloud accounts for resource inventory and configuration analysis. We provide pre-built IAM policies with least-privilege permissions. No production impact, no data access.

A Well-Architected Review covers all 6 pillars including reliability, performance, cost, and operations — not just security. However, security is a deep focus area in our review. For penetration testing or compliance audits, see our Security Assessments service.

Yes! Many clients engage us for implementation after the review. We offer fixed-price implementation packages for common remediations, or ongoing managed cloud services for continuous improvement.

We recommend annual reviews for production environments, plus ad-hoc reviews before major launches, after migrations, or during M&A due diligence. Many clients include quarterly check-ins in their managed services agreement.

Absolutely. We assess AWS, Azure, and GCP with consistent methodology. For multi-cloud environments, we also evaluate cross-cloud connectivity, consistent security policies, and operational efficiency.

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