CloudX Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR)

Overview: CloudX leverages the AWS Well-Architected Framework to help you assess your architectures, identify risks, and implement best practices for optimized workloads. Our expert team conducts a comprehensive review, providing feedback on specific architectures and actionable recommendations to ensure your systems are well-architected.

AWS Well-Architected Framework Pillars:

• Operational Excellence: Improve operability and management of operational events.
• Security: Ensure security by leveraging AWS's built-in service features.
• Reliability: Adapt systems to changing demands and improve resilience.
• Performance Efficiency: Optimize instance types and trade-offs for enhanced performance.
• Cost Optimization: Size resources appropriately and select cost-effective AWS services.
• Sustainability: Maximize resource utilization while minimizing environmental impact.

Solution Benefits:

1. Improved Security: Identify risks and implement best practices in line with the AWS Security pillar.
2. Cost Optimization: Recommendations for cost savings following AWS's Cost Optimization pillar.
3. Enhanced Performance: Guidance to improve workload performance aligned with AWS Performance Efficiency.
4. Increased Reliability: Identify points of failure and increase reliability based on AWS Reliability principles.
5. Operational Excellence: Improve automation, monitoring, and logging for operational efficiency.
6. Sustainability: Reduce the environmental impact of your cloud operations while maintaining performance.

Review Process:

1. Assessment: Complete the Well-Architected Framework Questionnaire.
2. Kick-off Meeting: Discuss your AWS environment and workload goals.
3. Review Report: Receive detailed findings and recommendations.
4. Improvement Plan: Prioritized steps to address 45% of identified high-risk issues.
5. Remediation: Implement solutions via Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or documented instructions.
6. Walkthrough: Final review of remediated issues and future recommendations.
7. AWS Credit Request & CSAT Survey: Submit a customer satisfaction survey to AWS and request service credits.

Getting Started:

• Click 'Continue' and provide your contact information.
• We will contact you to schedule the kick-off meeting.

Pricing: We charge a professional service fee of up to $5,000 per Well-Architected Framework Review. Upon submission of all required docs to AWS, you’ll receive $5,000 in AWS Well-Architected Service Credits, making the review essentially free (minimum 45% remediation of high-risk issues required).