{"id":13653,"date":"2021-12-08T14:04:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/blog\/evaluate-your-architecture-against-aws-best-practices-with-a-well-architected-review-no-charge\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T11:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T11:12:53","slug":"evaluate-your-architecture-against-aws-best-practices-with-a-well-architected-review-no-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/blog\/evaluate-your-architecture-against-aws-best-practices-with-a-well-architected-review-no-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluate Your Architecture Against AWS Best Practices with a Well-Architected Review (No Charge)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Well-Architected<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>

While most IT teams deploy workloads in accordance with industry best practices, few take the time to review and evaluate their application architecture<\/a> on a regular basis. And given the near-constant emergence of new cloud migration services<\/a> \u2013 not to mention cybersecurity threats \u2013 doing so is the only way to ensure that your environment remains optimized for performance and risk.<\/p>\n

Leveraging the AWS well-architected framework enables companies to maximize AWS cloud benefits<\/a>. It helps you to establish processes, guidelines and architectural principles<\/a> based on outcomes drawn from real-world situations that solve complex business problems without impacting performance or cost.<\/p>\n<\/div>

What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>

The AWS Well-Architected Framework<\/a> helps IT teams<\/a> design, build and run secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for a variety of applications and workloads. The framework consists of design principles, questions, and AWS best practices across the following six pillars:<\/p>\n

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  1. Operational Excellence<\/li>\n
  2. Security<\/li>\n
  3. Reliability<\/li>\n
  4. Performance Efficiency<\/li>\n
  5. Cost Optimization<\/li>\n
  6. Sustainability (new as December 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>

    What is an AWS Well-Architected Framework Review (AWS WAR)?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>

    An AWS Well-Architected Review<\/a> is a measurable approach for assessing how well an organization\u2019s architecture aligns with the six key framework pillars. Well-Architected Reviews enable IT teams to evaluate and optimize architectures as new features and cloud services are made available.<\/p>\n

    As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner<\/a>, NorthBay Solutions specializes in AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews. To date, NorthBay Solutions has conducted thousands of architecture reviews with clients and in partnership with AWS.<\/p>\n<\/div>

    What is the NorthBay Solutions process for conducting Well-Architected Reviews?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>
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    1. Conduct a 4- to 6-hour review session that can be split over multiple days with your team to learn about a specific workload in your environment. This involves a series of questions aligned to the framework which we then benchmark against AWS's proven best practices and guidelines.<\/li>\n
    2. Within a week, participants receive a Well-Architected Assessment Report with recommendations explaining areas of improvement. These recommendations are categorized and prioritized as high and medium based on the severity of impact.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      NorthBay Solutions Well-Architected Reviews are conducted at no charge, and your organization also may be eligible for $5,000 of credit from AWS account should you engage us to help remediate 25% of your High-Risk Issues (HRIs).<\/p>\n

      Simply said, our goal is to provide our customers with the highest integrity and performing workloads possible for today and into the future.<\/p>\n

      Want to learn a bit more? Check out this 5 minute video on \u201cWhat happens during a Well-Architected Review\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      Or, contact us<\/a> now to schedule your free AWS Well-Architected Review.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,26],"tags":[57,88,33],"class_list":["post-13653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-application-and-data-modernization","tag-all-industries","tag-exclude","tag-tech-saas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24335,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653\/revisions\/24335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}