AWS Well-Architected Tool

The AWS Well-Architected Tool is designed to help you review the state of your applications and workloads, and it provides a central place for architectural best practices and guidance. The AWS Well-Architected Tool is based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which was developed to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient application infrastructures. The Framework has been used in tens of thousands of workload reviews by AWS solutions architects, and it provides a consistent approach for evaluating your cloud architecture and implementing designs that will scale with your application needs over time.

In addition to the standard guidance provided by the AWS Well-Architected Framework and AWS-developed lenses, the AWS Well-Architected Tool allows you to add specific best practice guidance using custom lenses. By developing your own questions and evaluating your workloads using your organization’s best practices, you can perform reviews based on technology or governance requirements specific to your industry.

To use the AWS Well-Architected Tool, just define your workload, apply one of the AWS Well-Architected lenses or your own custom lens, and begin your review. The tool then provides an action plan to help you build for the cloud using the defined best practices. The AWS Well-Architected Tool is available at no charge in the AWS Management Console.