Optimize AWS Workloads
with AWS Well-Architected
Framework Reviews

Ensure your cloud infrastructure is secure
and follows AWS best practices

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Incentives AWS is currently offering up to $5,000 in credits for approved Well-Architected Review remediation activities performed by Foghorn. The only thing you have to lose is security vulnerabilities, inefficient performance, and underutilized resources.

The Well-Architected Framework Review Process

As an AWS Well-Architected Practitioner Foghorn Consulting is able to execute WAF reviews and help build strategies to help you compare your workload against AWS best practices, and obtain guidance to produce stable and efficient systems so you can focus on innovation and business growth.

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KickOff

Educational Session on Well Architected Principles and Benefits

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Review

Workshop to document current architecture and operations practices

Performance

Report

AWS report of critical, high to medium priority remediation opportunities

Performance

Remediate

Optionally, Foghorn can remediate prioritized items

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KickOff

Educational Session on Well Architected Principles and Benefits

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Review

Workshop to document current architecture and operations practices
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Report

AWS report of critical, high to medium priority remediation opportunities
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Remediate

Optionally, Foghorn can remediate prioritized items

Complimentary Well-Architected Framework Reviews

Foghorn can analyze your cloud to enhance performance and security, while slashing costs!
Based on AWS’ 6 Pillars, our AWS WAFR Certified Engineers Will Identify Areas of Improvement in:

Operational Excellence

Operational Excellence

Armed with deep industry experience and AWS’s DevOps Competency, Foghorn begins the review process by analyzing the client’s ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and support business outcomes. Our end goal from this part of the WAF is to identify opportunities to further integrate operations into the DevOps mission to continually improve supporting processes and procedures.

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Perform operations as code

5

Annotate documentation

5

Make frequent, reversible changes

5

Refine operations procedures

5

Anticipate failure

5

Learn from all operational failures

Security

Security

From IAM to incident response, organizations following AWS’s Shared Responsibility Model and security best practices are protected.
With AWS’s Security Competency Foghorn’s certified Engineers know security best practices across verticals. A security evaluation validates the tools and techniques used to secure a client’s AWS infrastructure to prevent financial and reputation loss while realizing compliance.

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Implement a strong ID foundation

5

Enable traceability

5

Apply security at all layers

5

Automate security best practices

5

Protect data in transit and at rest

5

Prepare for security events

Reliabilty

Reliabilty

With a well-planned foundation and monitoring in place, an organization can handle demand spikes and all system requirements. Foghorn’s Engineers study the client’s AWS environment to guarantee it can detect failure and automatically heal itself. Resilient designs based on best practices can recover from infrastructure or service disruptions, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand, and mitigate disruptions, such as misconfigurations or transient network issues.

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Test recovery procedures

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Automatically recover from failure

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Scale horizontally to increase aggregate system availability

5

Stop guessing capacity

5

Manage change in automation

Performance

Performance

Foghorn takes a data-driven approach to analyze all aspects of the architecture, to make sure computing resources are being used efficiently to meet system requirements. Engineers examine if it is possible to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.
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Democratize technologies

5

Go global in minutes

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Use serverless architectures

5

Experiment more often

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Mechanical sympathy

Cost Optimization

Cost Optimization

Depending on the need for speed or cost savings, our Engineers identify ways to avoid or eliminate unneeded cost and shift away from suboptimal resources. Over provisioned architectures that don’t take advantage of current best practices can impact the bottom line negatively and be unnecessary. By peeking under the hood Foghorn’s recommendations from a WAF, typically save much more than the cost to carry one out.

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Adopt a consumption model

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Measure overall efficiency

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Stop data center spend

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Analyze and attribute expenditure

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Use managed services to reduce cost of ownership

Sustainability

Sustainability

Sustainability in cloud computing requires consistent and ongoing endeavors aimed at reducing energy consumption and enhancing efficiency in every aspect of a workload. Foghorn will help maximize the utilization of provisioned resources while minimizing overall resource requirements.

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Region selection

5

Alignment to demand

5

Software and architecture

5

Data

5

Hardware and services

5

Process and culture

AWS Recommends a WAF
Review Every 6 Months

As an AWS Well-Architected Practitioner Foghorn Consulting is able to execute WAF reviews and help build strategies to help you compare your workload against AWS best practices, and obtain guidance to produce stable and efficient systems so you can focus on innovation and business growth.

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See if you are eligible for a Complimentary
AWS Well Architected Review

An AWS Well Architected Review is pretty painless, but requires involvement from both business and technical stakeholders. It is performed on a workload-by-workload basis. We usually start with a 2-4 hour workshop where we run through a provocative list of questions. Bring your architecture diagrams, they will be pinned up on the wall and relied on heavily! If you don’t have them, no worries, we’ll work our way through it anyway. We then take away a bunch of information, and sometimes some read-only credentials if you’d like us to take a look in the account and make sure the info we gather is in line with reality.

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We compile the information
into 2 main deliverables:
1) Detailed Score Card, and
2) Remediation Recommendations. The remediations are your roadmap to becoming Well Architected.

What Does “Well Architected” Mean?

The term “well architected” means that your AWS system’s architecture was crafted using the best practices noted by Amazon in their Well Architected Framework. It includes several constructive checkpoints for developers to follow when constructing cloud-based architecture, each of which are intended to increase the likelihood of business success. The framework also signifies that its practitioner is up-to-date on the most recent changes to the AWS ecosystem.

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