Well Architected Review or WAR Framework is an activity suggested by AWS to the customer who is facing issues with the infrastructure operations, performances, security, and high costs. Generally, WAR has 6 pillars – Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.
How Well Architected Review Framework is useful for you?
For customers or startups who are completely new in the cloud computing world, have existing workloads on the AWS cloud, or don’t have that much knowledge about cloud services and infrastructure data flow, Well Architected Review is very beneficial for them. With the help of a six-pillar review, customers can find the loopholes in their cloud infrastructure. After reviewing the pillars, the Well Architected Review framework generates reports that have HRIs (high-risk indicators) and MRIs (medium-risk indicators). But for the review, we need some necessary permissions or some IAM access for the AWS account.
Necessary permissions to access WAR tool
- AWSBillingReadOnlyAccess – Allows users to view bills on the Billing Console.
- WellArchitectedConsoleFullAccess – Allow the ability to create, change, and delete workload for WAR framework.
- ReadOnlyAccess – Provides read-only access to AWS services and resources.
- ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess – Provides read only access to ComputeOptimizer.
Above permission are the necessary permissions before performing the WAR activity. Post these permissions we can start with the reviewing of AWS workloads, generate reports and provide suggestions as per the AWS best practices.
Conclusion
Well Architected Review Framework is useful for the the customers who has concern about their AWS infrastructure in terms of costing, security, performance and infrastructure operations. There are some necessary permissions we need before the review of AWS account or start the WAR activity.