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Run Well-Architected assessments across any connected cloud — agents read your actual resource configuration and evaluate it against all six pillars, no questionnaire required. Screenshots show AWS, but the workflow is provider-agnostic.
Assessments are available on the Scale plan and above.

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Prerequisites

  • A cloud connection with the permissions your agents need to read the resources you want to assess.
  • Resources already discovered in CloudThinker — assessments only evaluate discovered resources.
  • Optional: tag or resource filters ready if you want to scope the run.

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Create an assessment

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Open Assessment and start a run

Go to Assessment and click Create Assessment.
Assessment landing with create CTA and overview timeline
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Name your assessment

Enter a clear name and optional description, then choose Create.
Modal to name and describe a new assessment
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Find your draft

Your new assessment appears in the list with status Pending. Click Run assessment to configure it.
Assessment list showing a pending assessment with run action

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Configure and run the assessment

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Select Well-Architected pillars

Pick the pillars to evaluate:
Pillar selection step for the assessment
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Select resources to assess

Choose the discovered resources to include. Scope to categories or specific resources — filter by service type, tags (for example Environment: production), or region, and use Select All on a filtered list. Only discovered resources are assessable.
Resource selection step with filters and toggles
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Review and start

Confirm pillars and selected resources, then click Start Assessment. A progress indicator shows resources as agents collect configuration, analyze usage patterns, and evaluate each pillar’s best practices.
Assessment summary before starting

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Review results and take action

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View analytics and findings

After the run, review analytics for findings by pillar, severity breakdown, potential savings, and scope. Multi-resource runs also surface the top affected resources and systemic patterns, such as widespread over-provisioning.
Analytics dashboard with findings by pillar and savings by service
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Drill into recommendations

Expand recommendations by resource to see effort, risk, and remediation details. Sort by potential savings, severity, or effort to prioritize — fixing one systemic issue can resolve findings across many resources.
Recommendations list grouped by resource with effort and risk
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Open recommendation details

Click a recommendation to view impact analysis, savings, and implementation guidelines.
Recommendation detail with impact analysis and implementation guidelines
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Take action

Choose how to proceed: run Impact Analytics to project the change before you make it, generate implementation guidelines, ask a custom prompt, or implement directly with agent assistance. Click Start to launch the action.
Action modal with options for analytics, guidelines, prompts, and implementation
Recommendations are drafted by default — save them to make them appear on the Plan page, where you assign priority and track implementation over time.

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Run your first assessment: one resource, one pillar

For your first run, scope to a single resource and a single pillar to learn the workflow before scaling up. Good first candidates:
  • An EC2 instance running a production workload
  • An RDS database you suspect is over-provisioned
  • An S3 bucket with unknown access patterns
Pick Cost Optimization or Security as the pillar — they typically surface the most actionable findings.
More resources and pillars mean longer assessment time. A single resource with one pillar takes 1–2 minutes. Scale gradually.
A first run against one over-provisioned instance might report: average CPU at 12% over 30 days, no Reserved Instance or Savings Plan coverage, and a recommendation to downsize with an estimated monthly saving. Once you’ve seen how it works, run the same pillar across all your EC2 instances to check whether over-provisioning is a systemic pattern. After a large run, ask Anna to condense the results:
Run assessments monthly or after major infrastructure changes to catch drift and new issues. For day-to-day guardrails between runs, use CloudKeepers.

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Next steps

Plan

Save assessment findings to Plan to track implementation and ROI

CloudKeepers

Set up daily guardrails to maintain the standards your assessment identified

Resources

Discover additional resources to include in your next assessment run

CostOps

Deep-dive into cost findings from the Cost Optimization pillar