AWS Well-Architected Tool Documentation

The AWS Well-Architected Tool is designed to help you review the state of your applications and workloads. It provides a central place for you to find AWS architectural best practices and guidance. The AWS Well-Architected Framework is designed to provide a consistent approach for evaluating your cloud architecture and to help scale with your application needs over time.

In addition to the standard guidance provided by the AWS Well-Architected Framework and AWS-developed lenses, the AWS Well-Architected Tool allows you to add your own best practice guidance using custom lenses.

You can benefit from access to knowledge and best practices used by AWS solutions architects. You can answer questions about your application or workload, and the AWS Well-Architected Tool is designed to deliver an action plan with step-by-step guidance to help you identify areas for improvement.

Designed to provide a single tool and a consistent process to help you review and measure your cloud architectures. The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you to monitor the status of multiple workloads across your organization and helps you understand potential risks. With the action plan, you can identify next steps for improvement, drive architectural decisions, and build for the cloud with confidence.

Designed to help you support continuous improvement throughout the workload lifecycle. The AWS Well-Architected Tool makes it easy for you to save point-in-time milestones and track changes to your workload. You can initiate new reviews as desired to help you improve your architecture over time.

You can create custom lenses and share them across your entire organization to measure workloads consistently. You can specify rules to help you determine which options can result in risk, and provide guidance on resolving those risks.

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