AWS Well-Architected Framework Review
Assess your AWS workloads against Well-Architected principles and identify where improvements matter most. Beetroot engineers review performance, security, reliability, and cost, then turn the findings into a prioritized remediation plan.
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Why Run a Well-Architected Review with Beetroot
Small problems have a way of becoming big ones — usually at the worst possible moment. A review helps you catch risks, wasted spend, and weak architectural decisions while they’re still easier to address. Beetroot walks your team through a process aligned with the Framework, and the findings can feed into a broader AWS architecture assessment and bring more clarity to what belongs at the top of your roadmap.
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Risk identification and gap analysis
We hold your workloads up against AWS best practices across areas like Security, Reliability, and Operational Excellence. Structured reviews and tools such as AWS Trusted Advisor surface gaps that need closer inspection.
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Cost optimization with evidence
We map cloud spend against actual usage and look for opportunities to right-size compute, storage, or scheduling. The goal is to trim unnecessary spend without compromising the performance your workloads depend on.
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Performance efficiency at scale
Bottlenecks, burst behavior, caching, and autoscaling can reveal where resources are being used inefficiently. Our engineers identify practical changes that can improve responsiveness and keep capacity manageable as demand shifts.
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Cloud governance you can run
Clear roles, guardrails, and change controls make cloud governance easier to maintain in day-to-day work. Where useful, we can also suggest templates, dashboards, or routines that fit how your team already works.
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Security and compliance basics done right
We review IAM, encryption, logging, backups, and other controls relevant to your workloads. The findings flag meaningful risks and priorities that support stronger security and closer alignment with internal or regulatory requirements.
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A remediation plan you can act on
Our specialists turn findings into a prioritized plan, with actions sorted by risk, effort, and business impact. We can also discuss ownership and timing with your team so the work fits naturally into the existing roadmap.
Ready for an outside view of your workloads?
The Six Pillars We Review
Our experts assess your workloads across all six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The review connects AWS best practices with your own goals and constraints, helping surface risks, gaps, and practical areas for improvement that can feed into your roadmap.
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#1. Operational excellence
We examine how you manage systems day-to-day, including runbooks, observability, incident handling, and deployment practices. The aim is to reduce surprises, support faster recovery, and help teams spend less time firefighting as the environment evolves.
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#2. Security
We review identity and access, encryption, logging, data protection, and how secrets, keys, and changes are managed. The findings can highlight misconfiguration risks and areas where stronger controls would better support your internal security and compliance requirements.
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#3. Reliability
Backups, recovery targets, multi-AZ or regional design, and critical dependencies all affect how a workload responds when something goes wrong. We look at those patterns to identify where resilience, recovery, or failure handling may need more attention.
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#4. Performance efficiency
We examine instance types, storage choices, caching, and autoscaling to see how efficiently workloads use resources as demand changes. Recommendations may include right-sizing, better architecture patterns, or smaller design changes that improve responsiveness without overbuilding the environment.
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#5. Cost optimization
We map spending to services and usage, review pricing models, and look at lifecycle and scheduling choices. The review can uncover waste or missed savings and point to practical Cost Optimization opportunities, from commitment planning to design changes that reduce unnecessary spend without compromising performance.
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#6. Sustainability
We look at resource utilization, idle capacity, environment sprawl, and how future growth is planned. Recommendations can support more efficient workloads and longer-term sustainability goals without treating efficiency as separate from performance or product needs.
Technologies And Tools We Use
The tools we work with depend on your architecture, workloads, and the scope of the review. We combine AWS-native services with established DevOps tooling to examine performance, security, cost, governance, and operational patterns, with cloud optimization services available where deeper remediation or tuning is needed.
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Architecture & Review
AWS Well-Architected Tool
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Config
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Security & Access
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
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Cost & Utilization
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Budgets
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Infrastructure as Code & Remediation
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Well-Architected Review Consulting Models
Choose the level of support that fits your review and what comes after it — from additional AWS expertise to a scoped assessment and remediation project or focused workshops for your internal team.
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Dedicated Development Teams
Build a long-term team of AWS-certified engineers and DevOps specialists to run reviews, implement agreed remediation work, and support your AWS workloads over time. You keep control of the processes, while Beetroot handles team setup and administrative work.
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Project-Based Solutions
Engage a managed team for a defined objective, from workload scoping and assessment to reporting and agreed remediation support. We work to a clear scope and milestones, making this model a good fit when you need a focused review project with defined delivery boundaries.
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Custom Tech Workshops
Build your team’s cloud and architecture skills through custom workshops led by Beetroot experts. We tailor the content to your team’s knowledge gaps and current challenges, with practical exercises based on real project scenarios that participants can carry into their day-to-day work.
Choose the setup that fits your AWS environment, review goals, and internal capacity:
Meet Our Engineers
Strengthen your AWS initiatives with senior cloud engineers, DevOps specialists, and other experienced infrastructure experts. Beetroot can connect you with people whose skills fit your environment, project goals, and level of support your team needs.
AWS Well-Architected Framework Review Process
We follow AWS Well-Architected Framework guidelines and fit them to your workloads, compliance needs, and team capacity. Our review process mixes structured questions, tooling, and working sessions, so you leave with clear priorities instead of a generic checklist.
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Discovery and Workload Inventory
Step 1We map your cloud architecture, business-critical workloads, environments, and dependencies. Together, we clarify goals, risks, and constraints such as release cadence or regulatory requirements. This sets a realistic scope for the rest of the review.
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Assessment Against Best Practices
Step 2Our engineers review relevant configurations, IAM, networking, monitoring, and deployment practices across the six pillars. Depending on the environment and access available, we may use AWS Trusted Advisor, the AWS Well-Architected Tool, and your existing metrics to compare the current setup with AWS best practices and surface potential risks.
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Gap Analysis and Reporting
Step 3We group findings by pillar, severity, and effort. The report explains issues in plain language, identifies affected workloads, and highlights their potential business impact. You get actionable insights rather than raw tool output, making trade-offs easier to discuss with technical and business stakeholders.
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Remediation Planning
Step 4Next, we shape a remediation plan with your team. It can include quick wins and deeper design changes, with suggested ownership and timing. This gives your engineers a practical backlog they can prioritize alongside existing roadmap work.
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Follow-Up Review and Alignment
Step 5Where follow-up support is part of the engagement, we can revisit key findings after changes are implemented, review remaining items, and adjust priorities as your roadmap evolves. This gives your team a way to check progress against the AWS Well-Architected Framework over time.
Industries We Support With Well-Architected Reviews
Different industries put different pressures on cloud architecture, from sensitive data and traffic spikes to connected devices and data-heavy workloads. We adapt the review to your technical environment, operational priorities, and relevant security or compliance requirements.
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HealthTech
Healthcare workloads often need stronger attention to access controls, reliability, backups, and sensitive data handling. We review the architecture with HIPAA-related requirements and operational continuity in mind, helping your team identify gaps that may need closer attention.
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GreenTech
Sensor-heavy and data-intensive GreenTech platforms can put pressure on storage, ingestion, and scaling choices. We examine these patterns to identify opportunities for better cost control, resource efficiency, and more reliable access to operational data.
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FinTech
Payment flows, trading systems, and risk platforms depend on resilient architecture and tightly controlled access. Reviews can surface gaps in encryption, monitoring, isolation, and recovery that matter for PCI DSS-related requirements and day-to-day reliability.
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EdTech
Enrollment periods, exams, and live learning can create sharp changes in demand. We review scaling, caching, and observability patterns to help workloads stay responsive during peaks without carrying unnecessary capacity the rest of the year.
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E-Commerce
Seasonal campaigns and flash sales can quickly expose weaknesses in scaling and failure handling. We review autoscaling, caching, and backend resilience to help teams handle demand more efficiently while keeping infrastructure spend easier to manage between peaks.
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Manufacturing & IoT
Connected devices, production systems, and logistics feeds depend on reliable data flows across edge and cloud environments. We review monitoring, resilience, and connectivity patterns to identify where telemetry, alerts, or integrations may need stronger support.
Why Beetroot For Your AWS Well-Architected Review
Beetroot takes a practical approach to reviews aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework. We work alongside your team to connect findings with your cloud environment, roadmap, and operational priorities.
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Hands-on AWS expertise
Work with architects and engineers who understand AWS workloads, architectural trade-offs, and day-to-day cloud operations. Their recommendations stay grounded in practical code, configuration, and process changes rather than abstract advice. Learn more about our AWS cloud consulting approach.
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Security and compliance focus
Our specialists review access, logging, data protection, and backup patterns with Security and compliance requirements in mind. Findings can highlight risks and practical improvements that support your internal standards and external obligations. For deeper security work, the review can be complemented by a focused cloud security assessment.
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Cost and Sustainability in View
Cost Optimization and Performance Efficiency stay part of the architectural discussion throughout the review. Recommendations may include right-sizing capacity, reducing unnecessary usage, or simplifying operations where those changes make sense for the workload.
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Flexible engagement, no lock-in
Choose a dedicated team, scoped project, or focused workshops depending on the support you need. You retain control over priorities and depth, while we adapt the engagement to your workloads, internal processes, and team capacity.
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Ongoing support where you need it
If follow-up support is part of the engagement, our engineers can help revisit open findings, refine governance routines, or support agreed remediation work as your environment evolves.
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Actionable Review Findings
Get findings connected to specific workloads, risks, and improvement opportunities. Recommendations are prioritized to help your team decide what to address first and plan remediation around available time, budget, and engineering capacity.
Client Testimonials
Many of our projects are subject to NDAs, so the testimonials below reflect a broader range of Beetroot’s work across cloud, data, and product development.
Featured Cases
These projects show how Beetroot has supported clients with cloud infrastructure, data-intensive systems, security, and scalable product development.
Custom Tech Workshops for Teams
Custom tech workshops can be shaped around the technologies, topics, and level of depth that matter to your team. Beetroot experts design each session around your context, combining focused instruction with hands-on work that reflects the challenges your team is currently dealing with.
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Work Through Real Architecture Challenges
Use relevant cloud scenarios to explore architecture decisions, trade-offs, and review findings across areas such as reliability, security, performance, and cost.
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Build Practical Well-Architected Review Skills
Explore how AWS Well-Architected principles can support architecture reviews and remediation planning, with examples tailored to your workloads, architecture decisions, and current priorities.
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Apply New Knowledge to Daily Work
Hands-on exercises and expert feedback give participants space to test new approaches and use them in architecture discussions, cloud operations, and ongoing project work.
Start Your Review:
Tell us where you want a clearer view of your AWS environment — whether that’s architecture risk, reliability, cost, or a specific workload. We’ll review the context and discuss a practical way forward.
FAQs
Explore common questions about AWS Well-Architected Reviews, including timing, access, and what to expect from the process.
