Overview

The Well-Architected Tool is an architecture review tool that provides customers and partners with a consistent approach to reviewing their architecture against current AWS best practices, and gives advice on how to architect workloads for the cloud.

Workload and Milestones

A workload is a set of components that together deliver business value. It is the subject of review for the Well-Architected Tool. It is the level of detail that business and technology leaders communicate about.

A milestone is a record of review of a workload at a specific point in time. It is used to track how our workload changes over time.

Features

The main features in the Well-Architected Tool include:

  • Define workloads and perform reviews.
  • Locate helpful resources.
  • Save milestones.
  • Generate PDF reports.
  • Assign priorities to pillars.
  • Create Improvement Plan.