AWS Well-Architected Agent is a new AI-driven service in public preview that scans AWS environments and produces prioritized, context-aware recommendations to optimize cost, security, performance, and resilience. It automatically correlates utilization metrics, resource configurations, and application topology, evaluating against Well-Architected best practices across 65+ AWS services. Recommendations are goal-aligned: users declare business objectives and application context, and the agent ranks findings by impact and effort. Output is provided at three levels - individual resource findings with dollar-impact estimates and step-by-step fixes, consolidated application-scoped findings, and architecture-level design changes with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) updates - so teams get ready-to-implement remediation and visibility into cross-pillar trade-offs.
Onboarding requires creating an agent profile, granting read-only IAM roles, and optionally uploading IaC projects (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) for pre-deployment reviews. Recommendations appear within 24 hours and can be remediated via console walkthroughs, updated IaC snippets, or AWS CLI commands; APIs are available for integration into CI/CD and operations workflows. AWS notes the recommendations are generated with generative AI and require customer review and oversight. The preview is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon), with workloads across commercial regions supported.
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