Find a better way with an Amazon Well Architected Review
The WAR provides a clear assessment of your cloud environment against AWS’s six architectural pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimisation, and Sustainability; for the insights you need to make lasting improvements.
The challenge
Cloud adoption often moves faster than cloud architecture, especially as teams deploy services and scale environments, with decisions made in the moment leading to design drift. Over time, this creates complexity, hidden risks, cost leakage, and missed opportunities to optimise.
Without regular architecture checks, many businesses end up overpaying, under-protecting, or operating with unplanned fragility, all of which can delay transformation or damage trust.
Our solution
Having us perform Amazon’s Well-Architected Review will bring clarity, structure, and a prioritised roadmap for improvement.
Delivered through collaborative workshops and deep technical insight, we will evaluate your current setup across all six AWS Well-Architected pillars, pinpoint risks, inefficiencies and architectural blind spots, before delivering a clear report and action plan, aligned to your goals.
The WAR includes:
- A structured cloud architecture assessment using the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Guided workshops and stakeholder interviews aligned to AWS’s six pillars.
- A detailed operational excellence review focused on governance, observability and change control.
- A full performance efficiency evaluation across compute, storage and networking.
- Identification of high-risk issues, mapped to business impact and priority.
- Sustainability and cost modelling to align technical and environmental goals.
- A tailored action plan, with access to AWS service credits (up to $5,000) where eligible.
- Optional implementation support to remediate risks and track improvement.
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Control complexity
We bring structure and turn complexity into clarity across technical, operational and business layers.
Optimise spend
We identify where cloud cost is being wasted, and make suggestions to align investment with performance and value.
Strengthen compliance
We assess your architecture against AWS best practices to help you reduce risk and improve audit readiness.
Empower decisions
We provide clear, risk-ranked findings to help stakeholders prioritise improvements with confidence.
Who it’s for
Cloud architects or business leads seeking independent architecture validation.
Operations needing a health check before scaling, modernising or migrating.
Companies preparing for compliance audits, cost reviews or performance improvement initiatives.
Key benefits
Objective review of your cloud architecture, aligned to AWS best practice.
Clarity across operational, security, performance, cost and sustainability domains.
Actionable insights with a prioritised risk report and remediation plan.
Enhanced architectural resilience, scalability and security.
Strengthened cross-team alignment on infrastructure priorities.
Access to AWS credits to support post-review improvements.
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Start your journey
Great architecture starts with visibility over what’s working, what needs improvement, as well as advice on how to get there effectively.
Our free Well-Architected Review highlights short-term risks and long-term improvements, giving you clarity on where to act first. You’ll receive a detailed, prioritised report aligned to your technical goals and business needs.
Our point of view
“The Well-Architected Review helps organisations assess the foundations they’re building on and ensure they’re building in the right direction, whether they're needing to grow fast or bring order to complexity.
Where we make the difference is in guiding customers through structured questions, best-practice alignment and prioritised action, not to catch mistakes, but to find how to make a cloud environment stronger, more efficient, and ready for what’s next."
How we deliver
Managed Services
Managing today
We take care of the platforms, infrastructure and services your business depends on so your teams can focus on growth, not firefighting. From basic coverage to enterprise-grade assurance, our Managed Services are designed to reduce risk, maintain availability and keep you moving forward.
Strategic Change
Building tomorrow
We deliver change with structure, clarity and confidence helping you reduce risk, increase value and modernise for the future. Our approach is built around real-world outcomes, not theoretical transformation.
The real FAQs for Well-Architected Review
A well-built cloud environment reduces risk, improves performance and strengthens governance. So, here are the questions we’re most often asked by teams exploring WAR to better prepare for their next step in their cloud journey.
What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
It’s a set of six pillars that define best practice in the cloud: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimisation, and Sustainability.
What do you actually assess in the review?
We assess architecture, infrastructure and governance across all six pillars — highlighting design gaps, misalignments and improvement opportunities.
Is the review AWS-only?
Yes, but the principles can often inform hybrid or multi-cloud environments. We tailor the output to your architecture and goals.
Do we need to provide full access to our environment?
No. The review is conducted using read-only access and structured interviews. We keep it lightweight and low-impact.
How long does it take?
Most reviews take 1–2 weeks, including discovery, workshops and report delivery. We adapt based on the complexity of your environment.
Who should be involved?
We recommend including cloud architects, DevOps, operations, security and compliance leads, plus finance if cost optimisation is in scope.
What’s the output of the review?
A detailed risk report, action plan and remediation roadmap with support options and, if eligible, access to AWS service credits.
How often should we run a Well-Architected Review?
At least once a year, or before major changes like migrations, scaling projects or compliance audits.
What are AWS credits and how do we claim them?
If you qualify, AWS provides up to $5,000 in service credits to support the implementation of identified improvements. We help you access these post-review.
How does this help with compliance and audit readiness?
We highlight security and governance gaps that may expose compliance risk, and provide practical steps to address them ahead of audits.
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