Review

Assess and Improve Your AWS Environment

An AWS environment grows faster than the policies governing it. New accounts, services, and permissions are added, and no one has a clear overview of the whole picture anymore. The review brings everything back into focus.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework has six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization and sustainability. We assess your most important workloads against each pillar. We verify the answers from the questionnaire against the configuration in your accounts.

Why Conduct an AWS Well-Architected Review?

A long list of findings doesn't help anyone. We rank each risk based on its impact and the effort required to resolve it, so your team knows where to start.

Architecture and costs are interrelated. At Colect, SUE’s engineers identified optimizations in databases and networking within three days. This resulted in a 43% reduction in monthly AWS costs and approximately a 20% improvement in performance.

Our approach


The review consists of four steps. The fourth step is optional: you can implement the recovery plan on your own or together with SUE engineers.

01

Scope and Workloads


Together, we select the workloads that matter most—usually the environments that have the greatest impact on revenue or customers. We gather architecture diagrams, account details and existing agreements.

02

Review Based on Six Pillars


Certified AWS engineers evaluate each workload against the framework’s six pillars and identify the risks affecting your workloads.

03

Recovery Plan


You'll see the risks for each pillar, ranked by impact and effort. For each risk, we describe the solution and why it matters to your organization.

04

Implementation (optional)


SUE engineers will implement the improvements together with your team. Afterward, we'll schedule a follow-up session to discuss progress.

What you get

  • A report detailing the strengths and weaknesses of your architecture, organized by pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
  • A prioritized list of risks, with the steps to resolve each risk listed for each one.
  • Architecture guidance based on design principles tailored to your workloads.
  • A follow-up session to assess progress (optional).

Would you like to read the background information first? The guide “ Cloud Migration ” outlines the strategies and pitfalls. To learn how SUE approaches the entire migration process, visit the page Cloud Migration.

After the AWS Well-Architected Review, you will have:

  • One evaluation report per pillar

  • A recovery plan ranked by impact

  • Tailored Advice

  • A follow-up consultation (optional)

What We Found in AWS Environments

About SUE

Modernize the code. Optimize the cloud. Run the platform.

SUE is a Dutch cloud native solutions partner that modernizes mission-critical applications, reduces cloud costs, and manages your platform. Specialists in Linux, Kubernetes, and the cloud.

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Research papers

Frequently asked questions

All frequently asked questions
The AWS Well-Architected Framework has six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization and sustainability. Each pillar includes design principles and questions you can use to evaluate a workload. In an AWS Well-Architected Review, SUE evaluates your workloads against all six pillars.
Conduct a review before a major change, such as a migration, a product launch, or an audit, and also on a regular basis. How often depends on how quickly your environment changes: a team that deploys daily is more likely to encounter anomalies than a stable environment. Between reviews, continuous monitoring of your security posture—for example, using Wiz—helps identify the biggest risks.
The AWS Well-Architected Review evaluates AWS workloads across six pillars, ranging from cost to reliability. The Cloud Security Health Check focuses solely on security—but in greater depth—and also works for other clouds as well as private or hybrid environments. If you’re running on AWS and want the big picture, start with the Well-Architected Review.
Cloud environments scale up easily, but rarely scale down automatically. High bills often arise from idle resources, overprovisioned servers, and a lack of insight into who is consuming what. With our Cloud Cost Control Check , we analyze your environment, eliminate waste, and apply rightsizing. This often results in immediate cost savings of 20% to 40%.

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