Well-Architected Review (WAR)

Validate your AWS architecture against industry best practices.

Our Well-Architected Review service evaluates your AWS environment against the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimisation. We conduct structured interviews, review architecture diagrams, audit configurations, and deliver prioritised recommendations with implementation guidance. This engagement provides a comprehensive health check and remediation roadmap.

Deep AWS review against best practice with risk remediation and actionable recommendations.

Best practices Risk assessment Optimisation Compliance

Why it matters

Identify architectural risks and optimisation opportunities with AWS-certified experts.

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50+

WARs completed

25+

Average high-risk findings per review

2-3 weeks

Review and reporting timeline

How we help

What Well-Architected Review (WAR) includes

We embed multi-disciplinary specialists who bring proven accelerators, governance, and enablement to every engagement.

  • Comprehensive review across all five WAF pillars
  • Risk identification and prioritisation framework
  • Hands-on architecture and configuration audit
  • Actionable remediation plan with effort estimates
  • AWS best practice alignment and guidance
Where it's worked

Highlights

Representative initiatives that show how we apply this service across modernisation, optimisation, and growth outcomes.

Operational excellence assessment

Review deployment practices, monitoring, incident response, and operational procedures to identify automation and process improvements.

Security posture evaluation

Audit IAM policies, network configurations, encryption, and compliance controls to strengthen security and reduce vulnerabilities.

Reliability and resilience review

Assess fault tolerance, backup strategies, disaster recovery, and scaling patterns to ensure business continuity.

Performance efficiency analysis

Evaluate resource selection, monitoring, and optimisation strategies to improve application performance and user experience.

Cost optimisation deep dive

Identify waste, right-sizing opportunities, and cost allocation improvements to reduce cloud spend without sacrificing performance.

Remediation roadmap delivery

Provide detailed action plan with effort estimates, business impact, and implementation guidance for each identified risk.

Ready to build what’s next?

Whether you’re planning a migration, scaling Kubernetes, modernising data, or putting GenAI to work, we’ll meet you where you are and move fast toward outcomes that matter.

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