Lens upgrades - AWS Well-Architected Tool

You can use the AWS Well-Architected Tool Connector for Jira to link your Jira account with AWS Well-Architected Tool, and sync improvement items between your workloads and Jira projects.

Lens upgrades

The AWS Well-Architected Framework Lens and other lenses provided by AWS are updated as new services are introduced, existing best practices for cloud-based systems are refined, and new best practices are added. When a new version of a lens is made available, AWS WA Tool is upgraded to reflect the latest best practices. Any new workloads that are defined use the new version of the lens.

A lens upgrade also occurs when a custom lens that you have applied to a workload or a review template has a new major version published.

A lens upgrade can consist of any combination of:

  • Adding new questions or best practices

  • Removing old questions or practices that are no longer recommended

  • Updating existing questions or best practices

  • Adding or removing pillars

Your answers to existing questions are retained.

Note

You cannot undo a lens upgrade. After a workload has been upgraded to the latest lens version, you cannot go back to the previous version of the lens.