Creating a review template in AWS WA Tool - AWS Well-Architected Tool

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Creating a review template in AWS WA Tool

To create a review template

  1. Select Review templates in the left navigation pane.

  2. Choose Create template.

  3. On the Specify template details page, provide a Name and Description for your review template.

  4. (Optional) In the Template notes and Tags sections, add any template notes or tags you want to associate with the review template. Any notes added are applied to all workloads that use the review template, whereas tags are specific to the review template.

    For more information on tags, see Tagging your AWS WA Tool resources.

  5. Choose Next.

  6. On the Apply lenses page, select the lenses that you want to apply to the review template. The maximum number of lenses that can be applied is 20.

    Lenses can be selected from Custom lenses, Lens Catalog, or both.

    Note

    Lenses that are shared with you cannot be applied to the review template.

  7. Choose Create template.

To begin answering questions for the review template you just created

  1. On the template Overview tab, in the Start answering questions information alert, select the lens in the Answer questions dropdown.

    Note

    You can also go to the Lenses section, select the lens, and choose Answer questions.

  2. For each lens you have applied to your review template, answer the applicable questions and choose Save and exit when done.

Once your review template is created, you can define a new workload from it.

The Overview tab of the review template should reflect the total number of Questions answered in the Template details section, and the Questions answered for each lens in the Lenses section.