AWS Well-Architected Framework Review

As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Qalius specializes in applying architectural best practices set by AWS. Our AWS Well-Architected Framework Review assesses your deployment on AWS and prioritizes the opportunities to improve alignment with AWS best practices.

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The Benefits of Qalius’ Well-Architected Review

An AWS Well-Architected Framework review with Qalius delivers a prioritized list of opportunities to improve adherence to AWS best practices. Use this assessment service from Qalius if your team is new to AWS or you simply want a fresh set of eyes on how your workload is deployed to AWS. Qalius uses automated tools and our consultant’s judgment to inspect your workload. We organize our assessment around the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and we report our findings in the AWS-native AWS Well-Architected Tool so you can relate our recommendations directly to best practices defined by AWS.

Operational Excellence

Improve observability and governance of workloads on AWS for a scalable operating model.

Security

Systematically assess the configuration of AWS services to identify and eliminate risks to data privacy and integrity.

Cost Optimization

Adopt cost-effective cloud-native architectures and right-size over-provisioned resources to lower the cost of AWS services.

Reliability

Ensure your workloads operate correctly and consistently with fault-tolerant architectures.

Performance Efficiency

Meet business requirements as demand fluctuates without expensive over-engineering.

Sustainability

Minimize your carbon footprint and achieve your environmental goals.

Why Choose Qalius for Your Well-Architected Review

Qalius conducts well-architected reviews as experts in both web applications and AWS services. We use automated tools to gather data and then apply our experience building cloud-native web applications to prioritize the findings into an action plan that suits your business.

Whether you need an in-depth analysis of a single pillar or a comprehensive review across all six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, we will tailor our approach to meet your specific needs.

Custom Web-Application Development for Financial Services Using AWS Cloud-Native Technologies

Qalius uses the capabilities of AWS to develop secure applications that meet your unique requirements. AWS provides a vast portfolio of data analytics services, artificial intelligence services, encryption services, and tooling for integrating to other systems to quickly deliver the features you need.

Security for your Business

Qalius architects your application and the underlying AWS services to work together like a key in a lock. The least privilege configuration ensures security and privacy for your business and your customers.

Solid Transactions

Your application has to always look after your customers, so Qalius ensures it gracefully copes with failures in third-party systems. Secure cloud storage and encryption support reconciliation and audit processes. 

AWS Advanced Consulting Partner

As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, the Qalius team is highly certified in AWS architecture and operations and has verified expertise in using AWS services according to best practices from the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Web Application Experts

As specialists in developing custom web applications on AWS, Qalius boasts a wealth of experience in both building and modernizing applications to meet the high standards set by the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Experienced in Demanding Workloads

Qalius’ application developers and cloud architects are AWS experts with deep technical expertise and experience running workloads according to AWS best practices.

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Our Well-Architected Review Process

Our well-architected review involves a collaborative approach, blending tool-driven analysis with manual expert evaluation.

Schedule a Review

Use the form below to reach out to Qalius to schedule your review.

Prepare

Starting with a short call, we’ll identify a target AWS workload, identify your goals, and provision read-only access for data collection.

Assess

Our consultant will gather results and prioritize an action plan using the AWS Well-Architected Tool. A short call with a technical team member may add your unique context to the assessment.

Review Findings

In a one-hour call, we will review our findings and discuss the action plan. The report in the AWS Well-Architected Tool remains a permanent record.

Custom Web-Application Development for Financial Services Using AWS Cloud-Native Technologies

Qalius uses the capabilities of AWS to develop secure applications that meet your unique requirements. AWS provides a vast portfolio of data analytics services, artificial intelligence services, encryption services, and tooling for integrating to other systems to quickly deliver the features you need.

Security for your Business

Qalius architects your application and the underlying AWS services to work together like a key in a lock. The least privilege configuration ensures security and privacy for your business and your customers.

Solid Transactions

Your application has to always look after your customers, so Qalius ensures it gracefully copes with failures in third-party systems. Secure cloud storage and encryption support reconciliation and audit processes. 

We Are an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner

Verified knowledge, experience, and customer success

Qalius is an Advanced Consulting Partner in the Amazon Partner Network (APN). Advanced Consulting Partners meet demanding knowledge, experience, and customer success requirements.

Solution Provider

Qalius is authorized to deliver complete solutions that combine services from Qalius with consumption-based pay-as-you-go billing for AWS services.

Public Sector Partner

Qalius is authorized to deliver solutions on AWS to public-sector customers in Canada including governments, not-for-profit entities, and healthcare providers.

Immersion Day Partner

APN Immersion Days are workshops to introduce your employees to the AWS platform using presentations and hands-on labs prepared by AWS Solutions Architects. Qalius is an authorized Amazon Partner Network (APN) Immersion Day partner.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Project teams that want to improve adherence to the AWS Well-Architected Framework often use the review to build a prioritized action plan. Other teams may be preparing for a major milestone, such as a production launch, and want to validate that they are following best practices. Either way, a Well-Architected Review with Qalius is a step towards realizing the benefits of AWS.
If the goal is a quick survey and action plan, a Well-Architected Review with Qalius can take as little as three hours of your time and a week of elapsed time. In cases where the workload merits a detailed study, we sometimes budget as much as half a day for each pillar of the Well-Architected Framework to review the outcome of automated assessments and discuss qualitative considerations.
Yes. With Amazon QuickSight, you don’t need to manage and scale servers. AWS provisions the underlying hardware and delivers Amazon QuickSight as a service that scales up and down to meet demand. The serverless model means you don’t need to plan capacity, procure and install hardware, or invest in an expensive project to get started.