The Problem: A Real Customer Story

The Situation

A large enterprise customer, operating a multi-service AWS environment, approached Storm Reply for an AWS Well-Architected Framework Review. The goal was straightforward: understand where their cloud architecture stood against AWS best practices and identify the most critical risks to address.

What wasn't straightforward was the scale of the review itself.

A full Well-Architected Framework Review spans six pillars, ~60+ questions, and hundreds of individual best-practice choices — each requiring evidence from the customer's AWS environment to justify a yes, no, or not applicable answer. For the reviewer, this meant: