Our expert consultants are FinOps Certified Practitioners. They will help you optimize cloud architecture, improve security, reduce risk, achieve cost savings, and accelerate innovation. By leveraging automation for data collection, Oak Rocket dramatically reduces time and effort to complete the WAFR. We use AWS ISV Partner CoreStack to quickly define and create assessment workloads, then execute tests based on those workloads, automating discovery of issues and violations across best practice areas.

Based on six pillars, the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review provides a consistent way to evaluate architectures and implement designs that will help you reduce risk and implement scalable designs.

The Six Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework

• Operational Excellence:

The operational excellence pillar focuses on running and monitoring systems, and continually improving processes and procedures. Key topics include automating changes, responding to events, and defining standards to manage daily operations

• Security:

The security pillar focuses on protecting information and systems. Key topics include confidentiality and integrity of data, managing user permissions, and establishing controls to detect security events.

• Reliability:

The reliability pillar focuses on workloads performing their intended functions and how to recover quickly from failure to meet demands. Key topics include distributed system design, recovery planning, and adapting to changing requirements.

• Performance Efficiency:

The performance efficiency pillar focuses on structured and streamlined allocation of IT and computing resources. Key topics include selecting resource types and sizes optimized for workload requirements, monitoring performance, and maintaining efficiency as business needs evolve.

• Cost Optimization:

The cost optimization pillar focuses on avoiding unnecessary costs. Key topics include understanding spending over time and controlling fund allocation, selecting resources of the right type and quantity, and scaling to meet business needs without overspending.

• Sustainability:

The sustainability pillar focuses on minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads. Key topics include a shared responsibility model for sustainability, understanding impact, and maximizing utilization to minimize required resources and reduce downstream impacts.

AWS Well-Architected Framework Review Deliverables During your Well-Architected Framework Review, a certified Oak Rocket consultant will identify opportunities for significant cost savings, improved application performance, and reduced security risks.

At the conclusion of the Review, you’ll receive a detailed, exportable report with: Identification of items that do not conform to AWS Well-Architected Framework Best Practices. Prioritization of risks/opportunities by criticality. Roadmap of estimated time and cost to resolve the identified issues. Documentation of key findings that can be shared with other stakeholders.