
AWS Well-Architected Automation; What is it?
Automate your Well-Architected Practice with AUTOMATE+, 6pillars' guided, automated, AWS cloud & workload review, performed in minutes to ensure best-practice​ across your workloads.
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How long does it take to automate my Well-Architected Framework Practice?
Automating your Well-Architected Practice takes minutes. After SaaS signup (free). deployment of AWS-native services takes minutes.
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You and your team will receive:
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Access to all versions of 6pillars’s AUTOMATE Well-Architected SaaS platform (Lite, Read-Only, AUTOMATE+)
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Fast, 5 minute deployment
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Features that allow both IaC or direct infrastructure Well-Architected Framework Reviews
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The latest Well-Architected Tool question and answer mappings (updated by AWS on the 5th of April, 2025)
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The ability to automatically answer up to 54 out of 57 questions using a simple and intuitive workflow that can be used by engineers, architects or pre-sales alike to deliver Well-Architected Framework Reviews in <30 minutes
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ACE opportunity creation automation
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White-labelled Executive Summary automation, including remediation SoW commercials
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Comprehensive Onboarding, Training and Enablement from 6pillars.ai, AWS Rising Star Partner of the Year 2025
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Access to 6pillars’s own Well-Architected Partnership to qualify for WA credits during your WAPP application process
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Ongoing commercial support to ensure cost-neutrality
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How much does it cost to automate my Well-Architected Framework Reviews?
It's usually cost-neutral for both customers and partners - ask us how.​
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Why do it?
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Automation saves your valuable cloud resources' time and hassle
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Assesses posture across accounts or organisations in seconds
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Covers all aspects of a review including infrastructure, policies, processes and tools
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Focusses on identification and retirement of High Risk Issues (HRIs)
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Automates milestone creation required for AWS funding applications
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Includes ongoing compliance visibility with ISO27001, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, NIST and more
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Includes 12 months AUTOMATE+ for Continuous Compliance
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How long does a Well-Architected Framework Review take using AUTOMATE+?
Typically <1 hour with a consultant or 6pillars' Partner post SaaS deployment.
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Are automate Well-Architected Framework Reviews secure?
All options, from AUTOMATE Lite, AUTOMATE Read Only and AUTOMATE+ are hardened to least-privileged principals and cater for all security postures.​
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Why 6pillars?
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Leveraging prior AWS Managed Service Provider experience, we have spent years developing AUTOMATE+ which lets you easily spot gaps in your posture AND fix them, as well as enabling ongoing compliance
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Our team have experience working with AWS for more than 12 years
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6pillars AUTOMATE+ performs the fastest Well-Architected Framework Reviews
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Cost-neutral or even cost-negative
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