Answerthink: Well-Architected Framework Review

Overview Answerthink’s AWS team delivers SAP solutions that revitalize and transform your core enterprise systems, speeding up implementation and providing a platform for innovation. With advanced analytics and business intelligence, we empower your organization to drive transformation and unlock new opportunities.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR) is a comprehensive guide on how to best operate infrastructure on the AWS platform. The WAFR provides high-level guidance on best practices to help customers like you properly leverage AWS capabilities.

Answerthink will perform a comprehensive in-depth account review of your current AWS footprint based on the 6 Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework including:

• Operational Excellence: Emphasizes optimizing and monitoring systems to deliver business value while continuously improving processes. Key areas include automating changes, responding to events, and setting standards for effectively managing day-to-day operations.
• Security: Focuses on safeguarding systems and information. Key aspects include ensuring data confidentiality and integrity, managing privileges, protecting systems from threats, and implementing controls to detect security incidents.
• Reliability: Concentrates on preventing and recovering from failures to meet business and customer demands. Key topics cover system setup, cross-project requirements, recovery strategies, and effective change management.
• Performance Efficiency: Highlights efficient use of IT and computing resources. Key considerations include selecting the right resource types and sizes for workloads, monitoring performance, and making data-driven decisions to optimize efficiency as business needs change.
• Cost Optimization: Aims to reduce unnecessary expenses. Key areas include tracking and controlling spending, choosing appropriate resource types and quantities, analyzing expenditures over time, and scaling efficiently to meet business needs without overspending.
• Sustainability: Focuses on reducing the environmental impact of cloud workloads. Key elements include adopting a shared responsibility model, understanding environmental impacts, and optimizing resource usage to minimize downstream effects.

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Deliverables Answerthink will collaborate with the customer to conduct a comprehensive review of their current AWS infrastructure using the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR). The WAFR serves as a tool to assess, guide, and enhance workloads in alignment with the customer's business and technical goals. This review lays the foundation for improving the infrastructure’s performance, security, and efficiency while optimizing overall operational costs.

Getting started The Well-Architected Framework Review is completed remotely by Answerthink. The time required to complete each review usually falls between 2-4 weeks. Remediation can vary according to the scope of work.