AWS Infrastructure Audit Free evaluation and optimization

An AWS Infrastructure Audit is a structured check of a workload against the AWS Well-Architected Framework. We walk through six pillars—operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, cost, and sustainability—inside the Well-Architected Tool. You get a clear list of High-Risk Issues (HRI), quick wins, and a step-by-step plan to fix gaps without breaking what already works.

Cloud setups drift over time. A review shows where risks and waste hide before they turn into incidents or big bills. You’ll get practical fixes across security, reliability, and spend, plus a simple order of work. Many teams uncover easy savings and remove noisy alerts. It’s a fast way to regain confidence in a growing AWS footprint.

You receive a workload report from the Well-Architected Tool, a prioritized list of HRIs, and a 30/60/90-day remediation plan. We include links and code notes where helpful, cost and performance tips, and owners for each task. The goal is simple: a clear path your team can execute without guesswork or long detours.

The Infrastructure Audit process is designed to be fast and collaborative. First, Cloudvisor will work with you to identify a specific workload or application in your AWS environment to review (usually one that is critical or representative of your infrastructure). We’ll schedule a discovery meeting (which can be remote) where an AWS-certified solutions architect leads a structured discussion about your architecture, using the AWS Well-Architected Tool and question framework.

Typically, we only need about 1–4 hours of your team’s time for the review meeting, depending on the size and complexity of the workload. During this session, we’ll ask questions and perhaps look at your AWS console read-outs – it’s an interactive whiteboard-style conversation, not an intrusive audit. After gathering information, our team analyzes the findings against the 6 pillar best practices. Within a few days (up to about two weeks at most for very complex environments), we deliver a report detailing any high-risk issues and improvement recommendations.

In short, the effort from your side is a brief meeting, and then we handle the analysis and deliver results swiftly.

An AWS Infrastructure Audit helps you align your cloud architecture with AWS best practices, resulting in tangible benefits for your business. Cost savings is a major benefit – the review often uncovers unused resources or misconfigured services that drive up cloud bills, so you can eliminate waste. It also boosts performance and reliability, by identifying bottlenecks or single points of failure and recommending optimizations (for example, improving autoscaling or fault tolerance). Security gets stronger too: AWS-certified reviewers will flag security gaps (like missing encryption or overly permissive access) and guide you on how to fix them. Overall, you get a prioritized action plan to improve your infrastructure’s operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency. Most organizations find the improvements extremely valuable – over 80% of reviews surface critical issues to address, which once fixed lead to more stable, efficient systems. For you, this means better application uptime, happier customers, and peace of mind that your AWS environment follows proven best practices.

It costs nothing when you work with an authorized AWS partner like Cloudvisor. AWS sponsors the Well-Architected Review program, making the entire process free of charge for customers. There’s no catch or hidden fee; the goal is to help you improve your cloud deployments. In fact, AWS is so invested in this process that if you decide to implement the recommended improvements, you can qualify for up to $5,000 in AWS service credits to offset the costs of those fixes. This incentive (often called the AWS remediation credit) is AWS’s way of encouraging businesses to close any high-risk gaps found during the review. In summary, the review itself is 100% free, and it may even pay you back in credits once you take action on the results.

An HRI is a gap that could cause an outage, security incident, data loss, or needless cost. Examples include broad IAM permissions, missing backups, weak logging, or no multi-AZ plan. We rank each HRI by impact and effort, then map it to a fix. Clearing HRIs is the fastest way to reduce risk and calm on-call.

We cover all six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. The mix depends on your goals. A payments app may lean on security and reliability; a data platform may care more about performance and spend. We keep the session practical and tie every finding to a clear action.

Yes. If your workload is serverless, SaaS, or machine learning-heavy, we include the matching lens. Lenses add domain-specific checks that catch issues general guidance can miss, such as event retries, tenant isolation, model drift, or feature store design. You’ll see lens findings alongside standard pillar items in the same simple action plan.

Reader-level access to the AWS account is usually enough, along with architecture diagrams and a quick system overview. We run the questions in the Well-Architected Tool and review logs, metrics, and alerts where needed. No risky changes happen during the review. Any fixes are planned and executed later with your team’s approval.

Your audit is led by certified AWS architects from Cloudvisor, senior experts who run these sessions every week. Cloudvisor has a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS, so we follow current guidance and know how funding and follow-up work. Expect people who can read your setup quickly, ask the right questions, and turn findings into a clear, do-able action plan.