CLOUDAR AS A
WELL-ARCHITECTED PARTNER
Cloudar is among a select few AWS consulting partners worldwide that have been approved as a certified AWS Well-Architected Partner. AWS Well-Architected Partners are able to provide deep AWS knowledge and hands-on experience architecting, building, migrating, and optimizing architectures that follow the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
While the AWS’ Well-Architected Framework is a powerful tool, the framework itself is only a starting point. Cloudar has already delivered dozens of free Well-Architected Reviews helping our customers to obtain actionable insight into their environment’s security, reliability, and performance, as well as their cloud operations and return on cloud spend.

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Free AWS Well-Architected Framework Review by Cloudar*
Available AWS Service Credit Voucher**
* For qualified organizations.
** Applies to qualified projects, for AWS clients who start remediation within 30 days after delivery of the AWS Well-Architected Review.
ABOUT THE AWS WELL-ARCHITECTED
FRAMEWORK
The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides architectural best practices across the five pillars for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud. The framework provides a set of questions that allows you to review an existing or proposed architecture. It also provides a set of AWS best practices for each pillar. Incorporating these pillars into your architecture helps produce stable and efficient systems. This allows you to focus on the other aspects of design, such as functional requirements.
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Cloudar's AWS Well-Architected Roles and Responsibilities
- Our AWS certified solution architect will work closely with your team to review your workload and will produce a detailed report outlining actionable items, timeframes, as well as provide prescriptive guidance in each of the key architectural pillars.
- Analysis of the workload/data collected across the Five Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, including any recommendations for remediation.
- Cloudar will submit a review and analysis document, outlining all findings and recommendations corresponding to Well-Architected framework.
The Well-Architected framework offers a consistent method to selected partners who have the exclusivity of evaluating various architectures for specific use cases, and providing measures for an application’s improvement. With our commitment towards excellence, this instrument is going to be vital in transforming the face of the in-field cloud infrastructure:
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AWS WELL-ARCHITECTED FAQ
Read our AWS Well-Architected FAQ to learn more about the AWS Well-Architected Framework and how AWS Well-Architected Reviews are delivered.
What is a Well-Architected Review?
Amazon Web Services has created a set of best practices for running systems in the cloud, which they call the AWS Well-Architected Framework. A Well-Architected Review is a high-level check of a critical workload against the framework.
The review is carried out by a Cloudar engineer who will work through a set of structured questions to establish alignment with AWS’s recommended best-practice. The questions are aligned to the five pillars of the Well-Architected Framework as explained here.
How long does a Well-Architected Review take?
If we’re completing the review with you in-person and on-site we usually like to arrange these sessions at the start and end of the day respectively. We’ll spend the time between preparing the recommendations and any supporting detail.
Who needs to get involved?
For a typical workload, this would usually involve the following roles:
- Infrastructure Engineer(s)
- DBA(s)
- DevOps Engineer(s)
- Developer(s)
- Support Team representation
- Security Team representation
Are there any pre-requisites or anything I need to prepare?
Ahead of the review we like to arrange a 30-minute preparatory call to confirm the scope of the workload and talk through the prerequisites. For the review itself, we will ask you to prepare or bring the following:
- Any existing documentation on the design of this workload, including architecture diagrams
- Access to the AWS account in which the workload resides:
- – read only access to the account
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- – full access to the Well-Architected Review service within the console
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- – a template IAM policy can be provided to support this
- a projector/screen and an HDMI connection
- a whiteboard or similar
How many Well-Architected Reviews should/can I do?
How much does a Well-Architected Review cost?
What are the benefits of doing a Well-Architected Review?
This prevents you from unlocking the full potential of modern cloud environments. Over time, it risks compromising performance and efficiency, leading to competitive disadvantage and business vulnerability.
Evaluating your systems versus proven best practice is an effective way to address this. Well-Architected Reviews offer clarity and focus in an ever-changing environment, enabling priority areas to be identified and addressed.
The main benefits of a Well-Architected Review are:
- Optimise Workloads – identify opportunities to optimise and re-architect workloads to run more efficiently, reliably and cost-effectively
- Mitigate Risks – lower or mitigate risks through better understanding as you build or optimise your current architectures.
- Accelerate & Invent – discover new services that help you build and deploy workloads and respond faster to opportunities to invent
What does “Remediation” mean?
Once the remediation work is done, what is next?
Why do you need access to my AWS Account?
To proceed with the review, we require access to the Well-Architected Review service within your AWS account console. AWS now manages the Well-Architected Review process through the account portal so in order for us to complete the questions and submit these to AWS (and for you to qualify for remediation funding) we must submit these responses on your behalf through your AWS account.
How do I provide access to my AWS Account?
What do I have to do to be eligible for the $5K in AWS credits?
AWS is currently offering service credits up to $5K if you start remediation work within 30 days of a Well-Architected Review. The credits will be applied to the account against which the review was completed.
Cloudar needs to notify AWS that work has started and provides a statement of work that details the remediation work being completed. In order to be eligible for receiving these credits, you must also complete AWS’s customer satisfaction (CSAT) survey.
Where do I find out more about Well-Architected?
How do I book a review?
- Schedule your review here
- +32 3 450 67 18
- sales@cloudar.be