AWS Readiness and Architecture Review
Is our AWS built right, and are we ready for what's next?
For CIO, CTO, IT director, head of infrastructure
A short, fixed-fee review that tells you where your AWS environment stands and what to do next. We assess readiness across AWS's Cloud Adoption Framework and review your most important workloads against the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. You get a ranked list of high and medium risks and a sequenced plan your leadership can approve. If you want, we fix the high-risk items and re-check them. Every review is recorded in the AWS Well-Architected Tool so findings can be tracked to closure. This is the recommended first engagement.
How we work
What we do
Open a step to see what happens and what you receive.
Assess
Fixed fee.
- Readiness interviews across the six AWS Cloud Adoption Framework perspectives: business, people, governance, platform, security and operations
- Well-Architected review of your priority workloads against all six pillars
- High and medium risk register for each workload
You receive: a readiness score and gap analysis, a Well-Architected report per workload, and a prioritized roadmap with a fixed-price remediation proposal.
Confirmed at scoping.
Build
Fixed scope with milestones.
- Remediate the high-risk findings
- Quick wins in security, backup and cost
- Re-run the Well-Architected review to confirm the risks are closed
You receive: a remediation change log, an updated Well-Architected report and architecture documentation.
Run
Optional. If you want us to, we can keep this going monthly for as long as you need it.
- Quarterly Well-Architected check
- Review of new workloads before launch
You receive: a quarterly risk report. Included in Managed AWS Operations at Standard level and above.
Services included: Cloud Readiness Assessment, Well-Architected Review.
Want to know what this would look like for you?About 30 minutes with a practitioner from the practice that does the work. You’ll leave with a clear view of your next step.
Book a 30-minute conversationOutcomes
What you can expect
- A clear view of risk across every reviewed workloadAssessment
- A sequenced plan leadership can approveAssessment
- Fewer surprises at audit, launch or renewalImplementation
Each outcome is labelled with the stage that delivers it. An assessment or advisory engagement on its own does not include the implementation work.
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DeliverablesDeliverables by phase (7)
Assess
- Readiness score and gap analysis
- Well-Architected report per workload
- Prioritized roadmap and fixed-price remediation proposal
Build
- Remediation change log
- Updated Well-Architected report
- Architecture documentation
Run (optional)
- Quarterly risk report (optional Run)
Good to know
Questions leaders ask
AWS already gives us a free Well-Architected Tool. Why do we need you?
We use the same tool to record every review. The value is in the questions, the evidence and the judgement on what to fix first, and we turn the findings into a fixed-price remediation plan.
Do you need access to our AWS accounts?
For a Well-Architected Review we typically need read-only access agreed with your security team, plus interviews with the people who run the workload. Access is agreed with your security team once the engagement is in place.
What are the six pillars?
Operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization and sustainability.
What happens after the review?
You get a risk register and a fixed-price proposal to fix the high-risk items. You can also run the fixes yourselves.
We don't have time for an assessment right now.
The review can start with one workload and a few short interviews. It is sized to fit around your team.
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About 30 minutes with a practitioner from the practice that does the work, not a salesperson. It’s about your situation, and you’ll leave with a clear view of your next step. No cost, no obligation.
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