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Announcing AWS Well-Architected Custom Lenses: Extend the Well-Architected

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ We https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/are-you-well-architected/ back in 2015 to help you review workloads against architectural best practices, and across pillars such as operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization. In 2018, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-well-architected-tool-review-workloads-against-best-practices/, a self-service tool designed to help you review AWS workloads at any time, without the need for an AWS Solutions Architect.

In addition to AWS Well-Architected Lenses, now you can create and share custom lenses and include them in your workload reviews, ultimately tailoring the review to your organizational needs.

As an https://aws.amazon.com/partners/programs/well-architected/, you might include ad-hoc best practices in your custom lenses when reviewing workloads with customers from different industries and segments, ultimately making the review process easier, faster, and more comprehensive.

During the workload review, you will go through each pillar and questions of the custom lens, using the same user interface provided by the AWS Well-Architected Tool.