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Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize your cloud environment (preview)

Introducing the public preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered service that analyzes your AWS environment to deliver targeted, contextual recommendations for improving your applications' cost, security, performance, and resilience—with ready-to-implement fixes aligned to your business goals.

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Today, we’re announcing the public preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent , an AI-powered service that analyzes your AWS environment to deliver targeted, contextual recommendations for improving your applications’ cost, security, performance, and resilience. The AWS Well-Architected Agent analyzes your infrastructure, understands unique business goals, and delivers contextual recommendations with ready-to-implement fixes. It delivers context-aware optimization without relying on manual audits or generic checklists.

The agent evaluates your environment as an experienced cloud architect would. It automatically correlates utilization metrics, resource configurations, and application topology, and analyzes against Well-Architected best practices across 65+ AWS services. It generates recommendations aligned to your declared business goals, delivers implementation packages with every finding, and surfaces cross-pillar trade-offs making it simpler to remediate the findings.

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