Amazon Well-Architected
Many companies are not getting all the benefits they expected following a migration of their IT systems to the cloud. In some cases, limitations surface following a lift-and-shift. In other cases, proof-of-concept solutions remain in place while services are scaling up.
Identifying and resolving issues that relate to your application and cloud architecture will help you get the most out of your IT in the cloud.
Almost all of Levi9 Technology Services’ 60+ customers run their workloads in the cloud. The majority are running on AWS, but Microsoft Azure and GCP are catching up.
We can help you optimize your Software Development Lifecycle processes as well as your application and infrastructure architecture through the Well-Architected Review
The AWS Well-Architected Review
Our Well-Architected Review is one of the services we provide to help you identify deviations from the AWS best practices. The Well-Architected Review is a Levi9 complimentary service for organizations that want to get more out of the AWS cloud. We offer a high-level review that identifies medium- and high-risk issues in your cloud setup. Remediation of issues is often partially funded by AWS. The review takes the form of an interview (3-4 hours), and the deliverable is an AWS Well-Architected report and presentation of findings.
In our Well-Architected Review, we focus on 6 areas:
Operational excellence
Are your systems architected to deliver business value and ensure that supporting processes can be continuously improved?
Are your processes automated? Are playbooks and runbooks being used? Do you use Infrastructure as Code to manage operational events?
Security
Protecting your systems and your information is of vital importance for any business. How do you assess risk, and what mitigation strategies are best suited for your architecture? Among other factors, we review the use of tools for encryption, identity and access management, and key management.
Efficiency
Demand for computing resources may fluctuate, and technology in your sector may develop rapidly. How well is your system equipped to handle these variations? Do you use specific instance types for specific workloads? What caching strategies do you use? Is your storage architecture optimized? These are just some of the questions we answer.
Reliability
Whether it is your ecommerce environment, a product configurator, a fleet monitoring system, or a messaging software, uninterrupted availability of your enterprise systems is essential for most businesses nowadays.
Is your architecture designed to help mitigating disruptions, such as misconfiguration or transient network issues? In our Well-Architected Review, we take a closer look at things like service limits, setup of availability zones, and backup and disaster recovery.
Cost optimization
One of the main benefits of running your business in the AWS Cloud is the ability to optimize costs. But is your architecture helping you achieve this? We examine the services you use, the tuning of your environment to the purpose it serves, and whether tweaking your account management can help you keep costs under control.
Sustainability
Environmental sustainability is a shared responsibility between customers and AWS. AWS is responsible for optimizing the sustainability of the cloud – delivering efficient, shared infrastructure, water stewardship, and sourcing renewable power. Customers are responsible for sustainability in the cloud – optimizing workloads and resource utilization, and minimizing the total resources required to be deployed for your workloads. Let us help you navigate.
