AWS architecture and operations review
An AWS environment with a clear account structure and consistent governance is easier to secure and cheaper to run as it grows. Our AWS architecture review looks at how yours is built and managed day to day, and compares it with AWS's own guidance.
Well-Architected Framework review
Taking the pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework as the reference point, we look for single points of failure in your architecture and for parts of the design that are more complicated than the workload needs. Where something can be simplified, the report says how.
Account structure & organisations
We review your AWS Organizations set-up, including the organizational unit (OU) hierarchy and Service Control Policies (SCPs). Splitting workloads across several accounts makes it easier to apply the same guardrails everywhere and to limit the damage from any single incident. We point out where your current structure adds risk or creates extra operational work.
Tagging strategy
Across your accounts, we check how consistently resources are tagged and list the ones with missing or mismatched tags. Because tags drive cost allocation and show who owns a resource and which environment it belongs to, we also propose a tagging policy you can enforce with SCPs and AWS Config rules.
Resource lifecycle & hygiene
Most AWS accounts gather resources that nobody uses any more, such as unattached EBS volumes and idle load balancers or instances that were stopped and forgotten about. All of them add to your bill and some widen your attack surface, so we list what can be cleared out.
S3 & storage security
For each S3 bucket we check public access settings, encryption at rest and access logging, and read through the bucket policies and ACLs. Where a bucket is more exposed than it should be or has been misconfigured, we recommend the controls needed to meet your security requirements.
Other AWS reviews
Also on Azure? See our Azure architecture and operations review.