Basic Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| English | AWS Well-Architected Tool |
| Full name | AWS Well-Architected Tool |
| Chinese | 架构评审与风险改进工具 |
| Japanese | AWS Well-Architected Tool（Well-Architected レビュー支援） |
| Exam frequency | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Often confused with | AWS Trusted Advisor |
One-line summary
Review workloads against the six pillars and record risks, improvements, and milestones.
Core capabilities and use cases
- Reviews operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.
- Records high- and medium-risk issues, improvement guidance, and milestones.
- Supports repeated reviews so teams can compare architecture improvements over time.
- The team defines a workload and answers framework questions using real architectural context.
- It is a structured review tool, not an automatic architecture redesign or remediation engine.
Exam focus and common pitfalls
- Six pillars, workload review, risk issues, and milestones point to the Well-Architected Tool.
- Trusted Advisor performs automated account checks; the Well-Architected Tool guides a contextual workload review.
- The review quality depends on accurate and complete input.
Key takeaway
Six pillars plus workload review, risks, and milestones means AWS Well-Architected Tool.
Update: workloads, lenses, and milestones
- The tool records context and answers in a workload, selects a review perspective through lenses, and saves point-in-time review snapshots as milestones.
- High- and medium-risk issues guide improvement priority; they are not automatic remediation or compliance certification.
- A custom lens can organize internal questions, but ownership, evidence, an improvement plan, and review cadence remain necessary.