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I'm already a fan of the AWS DevOps Agent. AWS just shipped its Well-Architected sibling in preview It's the next-gen take on Trusted Advisor and the Well-Architected Tool 🛠 What it actually does:

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• Reviews cost, security, performance and reliability, then ranks the fixes by impact and effort • Reads your Terraform, CDK and CloudFormation, and hands back the code change it wants • Doesn't stop at the finding: SSM runbook, CLI scripts or a console walkthrough to actually do it

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• Shows what a fix in one pillar costs you in the others before you commit You give it your business goals and it prioritises against those, not against a generic checklist.

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Two catches. It runs through AWS Support, so you need a Support plan. And the agent is only in us-east-1, us-east-2 and us-west-2, though you can onboard workloads from any commercial Region. Link to the announcement aws.amazon.com/about-aws/w...

aws.amazon.comAWS Well-Architected Agent is now available in preview - AWSDiscover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Well-Architected Agent is now available in preview

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Tobias Schmidt

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P.S.: AWS tooling and releases like this, explained visually in the newsletter: awsfundamentals.com

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