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AWS Well-Architected Framework was established as a consolidation of best practices and lessons learned from AWS’s extensive experience in cloud computing aimed at aiding cloud architects in building secure, efficient, and reliable infrastructure.
Built around six pillars, AWS Well-Architected provides a consistent approach to evaluating architectures and implementing scalable designs.
Innova Solutions is here to help you analyze and review your applications to ensure AWS workloads align with best practices, enhancing efficiency, security, and sustainability.
Six Pillars of a Well-Architected AWS Workload
Operational Excellence
We assess your operational practices to enhance monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement processes, ensuring your operations are as efficient and effective as possible.
Key Review Areas: Automating changes, responding to events, and defining standards to manage daily operations.
Security
Our review prioritizes protecting your information and systems and evaluating your configuration and policies against AWS security best practices to safeguard your assets.
Key Review Areas: Confidentiality and integrity of data, managing user permissions, and establishing controls to detect security events.
Reliability
We examine your infrastructure’s ability to recover from failures and dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
Key Review Areas: Distributed system design, recovery planning, and adapting to changing requirements.
Performance Efficiency
Our certified AWS Solutions Architects analyze your workloads to ensure they are using AWS resources efficiently, helping you to achieve higher throughput, lower response times, and cost-effective scaling.
Key Review Areas: Selecting resource types and sizes optimized for workload requirements, monitoring performance, and maintaining efficiency as business needs evolve.
Cost Optimization
We identify opportunities to reduce costs and increase value by ensuring you’re using the most cost-effective AWS resources and services without compromising on performance and capacity.
Key Review Areas: Understanding spending overtime and controlling fund allocation, selecting resources of the right type and quantity, and scaling to meet business needs without overspending.
Sustainability
Our review includes recommendations to minimize environmental impact by optimizing resource usage and efficiency, contributing to your sustainability goals.
Key Review Areas: A shared responsibility model for sustainability, understanding impact, and maximizing utilization to minimize required resources and reduce downstream impacts.
Specialized Well-Architected Reviews
Not all workloads in AWS are the same, and some require a specialized, Well-Architected Review process that focuses on their unique nature. That is why Innova Solutions’ certified AWS Solutions Architects follow AWS’s Well-Architected Lens guidelines for these workloads.
Compliance Well-Architected Reviews
- CIS: 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.0
- CIS: Kubernetes 1.23
- FedRamp: Moderate, High
- GDPR
- HIPAA
- ISO: 27001, 27017
- NIST SP 800: 53r4, 53r5, 171
- PCI DSS
- SOC2
Innova Well-Architected Review Process
Customers can expect a thorough and structured evaluation of their AWS cloud infrastructure and workloads when engaging with Innova Solutions’ Well-Architected Framework Assessment service. Here’s what to anticipate throughout the engagement:
Initial Consultation
• Engagement with SMEs
• Understanding Business Objectives
• Scope Definition
In-depth Assessment
• Comprehensive Review
• Best Practices Alignment
• Security and Compliance Check
Reporting and Recommendations
• Detailed Findings Report
• Actionable Recommendations
• Strategic Roadmap
Implementation Support
• Quick Wins Identification
• Guidance and Best Practices
• AWS Funding Assistance
Follow-up and Continuous Improvement
• Continuous Improvement Process
• Follow-Up Review
• Ongoing Support
Engagement Benefits
• Enhanced Cloud Efficiency
• Increased Security and Compliance
• Scalable and Resilient Architecture
Customers engaging our service will benefit from a partnership approach, where we work closely with your team to identify areas for improvement and empower your team with the knowledge and strategies needed to maintain a well-architected environment in the long term.
Reach out to us today and schedule your first Innova Solutions Well-Architected review of your AWS workloads.
