Well Architected Tool PNG and SVG Icon
The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review and improve your cloud workloads using AWS's architectural best practices.
Last Modified: August 29, 2025
16px
32px
48px
64px
Details
Key Features
- Evaluates workloads against AWS Well-Architected best practices.
- Provides actionable improvement plans.
- Covers reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Supports continuous workload optimization.
Common Use Cases
- Evaluate workloads for security best practices before production deployment
- Review cost optimization opportunities in existing architectures
- Run periodic architecture health checks to ensure compliance
Explore More Icons
SNS Topic
Amazon SNS Topic is a logical access point used to group multiple recipients and publish messages to subscribers using Amazon Simple Notification Service.
Textract
Amazon Textract is an AI service that automatically extracts text, tables, and other data from scanned documents and PDFs.
Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services using familiar programming languages and servers.
Glue DataBrew
AWS Glue DataBrew is a visual data preparation tool that allows data analysts and scientists to clean and normalize data without writing code.
Braket
Amazon Braket is a fully managed service that helps researchers and developers explore and design quantum computing algorithms on simulators and quantum hardware.
IoT Button
The AWS IoT Button is a programmable, Wi-Fi-enabled device that integrates with AWS IoT Core and allows developers to test cloud-based IoT applications.
Nova
Amazon Nova refers to internal AI infrastructure or services (if announced); details may vary as it's not yet publicly defined.
Systems Manager
AWS Systems Manager gives you visibility and control of your AWS infrastructure by unifying resource management under one interface.
Serverless Application Repository
AWS Serverless Application Repository is a managed repository for discovering, deploying, and publishing serverless applications built with Lambda and other AWS services.
Telco Network Builder
AWS Telco Network Builder simplifies the deployment and management of telecom networks on AWS using standard telecom models.
Elemental Link
AWS Elemental Link is a hardware device that connects a live video source to AWS Elemental MediaLive for high-quality, low-latency cloud-based encoding.
rePost Private
AWS re:Post Private offers a secure, private version of the re:Post community within an organization, enabling internal knowledge sharing and collaboration around AWS topics.
EC2
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud for virtually any workload.
Notebook
Amazon SageMaker Notebook is a fully managed Jupyter notebook environment for developing, training, and deploying machine learning models.
Reserved Instance Reporting
AWS Reserved Instance Reporting helps you monitor and optimize the utilization and coverage of your purchased Reserved Instances for cost savings.
Monitron
Amazon Monitron is an end-to-end system that uses sensors, gateways, and ML to detect abnormal behavior in industrial equipment.
Cloud WAN
AWS Cloud WAN simplifies the management of wide area networks (WANs) by connecting on-premises and cloud environments with a central dashboard.
Console Mobile Application
The AWS Console Mobile Application allows you to view and manage a select set of AWS resources from your mobile device.
Organizational Unit
An Organizational Unit in AWS Organizations is a container for organizing AWS accounts for policy-based management.
CloudShell
AWS CloudShell is a browser-based shell that provides command-line access to AWS services and tools directly from the AWS Management Console.
SQS Message
Amazon SQS Message refers to an individual data unit sent between distributed system components via Amazon Simple Queue Service.
EFS
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides scalable, fully managed NFS file storage for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources.
MariaDB Instance
MariaDB Instance in Amazon RDS allows you to run managed MariaDB databases with automated backups, patching, and scaling.
Key Management Service
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) enables you to create and control cryptographic keys used to encrypt your data with integrated AWS service support.