AWS Well-Architected Agent

#158 · Level 4 · Operations and specialized areas · Governance, multi-account and cost

Concept

AWS Well-Architected Agent is an AI-powered service that regularly analyzes your AWS environment and gives you tailored advice on cost, security, performance and resilience. To start, you create an Agent profile, where you say which accounts and Regions it should look at, which topics to focus on, and what your business goals are. Based on those goals, the recommendations are sorted by priority — at three levels: a single resource, a whole app and the whole architecture. Many recommendations also come with ready-made IaC code to fix the problem, and it also makes use of AWS Trusted Advisor’s findings. In the AWS Well-Architected Tool you have to do a review by answering questions yourself, while the Agent looks at the environment on its own and gives advice; it is currently in preview.

Simple example

A family doctor who regularly looks at your reports and tells you which problem to fix first and how to fix it.

Why it’s needed

A big AWS environment has many small problems with cost, security and stability. Finding by hand which one needs fixing first is hard.

Where it’s used

Regularly looking for chances to cut costs and improve security.
Deciding which work to do first based on business goals.
Architecture review before launching a new IaC template.

Key terms

English	Simple meaning
Agent profile	A description of which accounts, Regions and goals the Agent works with
Recommendation	A problem and advice on how to fix it
Pillar	A core topic of Well-Architected, such as cost or security

Azure equivalent

Azure Advisor (closest)

AWS Well-Architected Tool · AWS Trusted Advisor · AWS Compute Optimizer

Learn more

For details and the latest information, see the official documentation:

AWS Well-Architected Agent — AWS official documentation ↗