AWS Well-Architected Tool

Learn best practices and apply important design considerations

Why the AWS WA Tool?

Available in the AWS Management Console, the AWS Well-Architected Tool provides a trusted framework for you to evaluate your cloud architecture and implement designs that will scale over time.

Benefits

Architectural guidance

Get access to best practices and an action plan to fine-tune your applications and workloads.

In-Workflow Best Practices

Extend AWS Well-Architected Tool for your architecture governance processes, applications, and workflows through robust APIs.

Measure Improvements

Save point-in-time milestones, implement improvements, and track changes to measure progress.

Enhance collaboration

Tailor your review with custom lenses that you can share with up to 300 individual IAM users or across your entire organization.

Use cases

Workload sharing and collaboration

Provide shared visibility into high-risk issues (HRIs) identified in workloads, and streamline collaboration with other workload reviewers.

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Tailor guidance with custom lenses

Combine your best practices with AWS WA best practices in a single location to gain insight into your overall architectural health.

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Realize sustainability goals

Use the AWS WA sustainability pillar during your workload reviews to learn best practices for minimizing environmental impact.

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Getting started

AWS Well-Architected Framework

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FAQs

Review the FAQs to learn about the AWS Well-Architected Tool, availability, and pricing

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Guide

Gain an understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and access tutorials

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