AWS Well-Architected Audit

$2.99Official

Use when asked to audit, score, or harden an AWS account, Organization, or workload across the six Well-Architected pillars with evidence-backed findings.

cloudawswell-architectedcloud-auditsecurityfinopsreliabilitycompliance· by SkillingMain

What you get

✓10-step procedure
✓Runnable Shell / Terraform included
✓8-point quality checklist
✓9 pitfalls to avoid
✓Installs into 6 tools

Version: v1 →
Last updated: today
Length: 13 min read
Requires: Best with a strong model (Claude Opus 5)

Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cline, opencode, OpenClaw, Hermes · Built for large codebases

What you'll need to set up

Some setup · 25-45 min

Provision a dedicated read-only AWS audit principal (IAM role or IAM Identity Center permission set) carrying the SecurityAudit and ViewOnlyAccess managed policies plus a small supplemental policy for Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer, Resource Groups Tagging, Service Quotas and Support, activate IAM access to Billing data, opt in to Compute Optimizer, and configure AWS CLI v2 (plus jq) with a named profile for that principal.

AWS_PROFILEAWS_ACCESS_KEY_IDAWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEYAWS_SESSION_TOKENAWS_REGIONREGIONS

Full setup guide · 20 API calls →

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When to use

Invoke when the request is to audit, score, or harden an AWS account, Organization, or workload against the Well-Architected Framework's six pillars (Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, Sustainability). Typical triggers: "review our AWS setup", "are we production-ready", pre-launch readiness gates, post-incident architecture review, due diligence on an inherited account, annual compliance or FinOps review.

Do not invoke for single-service debugging, a one-off IAM policy question, or a pure cost export — those are narrower tasks. Use this when breadth across pillars and evidence-backed findings are the deliverable.

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