AWS Well-Architected Review – Sirius Computer Solutions

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Overview

Well-architected systems provide a strategic advantage and increase success. To ensure your architecture remains optimized, we apply a set of best practices for reviewing critical workloads running on AWS.

Are you getting the most from your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment?
How does your architecture compare to industry best practices?

Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework

The Well-Architected Framework has been developed to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient and efficient infrastructure for their applications.

Security

The security pillar focuses on protecting information and systems. Key topics include confidentiality and integrity of data, identifying and managing who can do what with privilege management, protecting systems, and establishing controls to detect security events.

Reliability

The reliability pillar focuses on the ability to prevent and quickly recover from failures to meet business and customer demand. Key topics include foundational elements around setup, cross-project requirements, recovery planning, and how we handle change.

Performance Efficiency

The performance efficiency pillar focuses on using IT and computing resources efficiently. Key topics include selecting the right resource types and sizes based on workload requirements, monitoring performance, and making informed decisions to maintain efficiency as business needs evolve.

Cost Optimization

Cost optimization focuses on avoiding unnecessary costs. Key topics include understanding and controlling where money is being spent, selecting the most appropriate and right number of resource types, analyzing spend over time, and scaling to meet business needs without overspending.

Operational Excellence

The operational excellence pillar focuses on running and monitoring systems to deliver business value, and continually improving processes and procedures. Key topics include managing and automating changes, responding to events, and defining standards to successfully manage daily operations.

How do you get started?

Schedule a convenient day for us to start.

Complete the pre-work document for the core workload(s) you want us to review.
Reviews can be conducted remotely or on-site. Please allow 2 to 4 hours.
There is no cost to conduct the review.

What will be covered?

Review operations for compliance with the five pillars of Well-Architected.
Perform assessments via pre-work documentation, questions, and analytics.
Perform analysis on a critical workload, based on 35+ rules.

Whom do you invite to the review?

Best performed with application owners and business owners participating.
Sirius will involve strategic and certified Well-Architected resources.

Following the Review:

Recommendations based on our findings of your workload current state.
A prioritized roadmap of goals, based on the core Framework pillars.
Our clients decide which recommendations to implement. Sirius will work with AWS to provide available funding to assist with remediation.