Adding a lens to a workload in AWS WA Tool - AWS Well-Architected Tool

We have released a new version of the Well-Architected Framework. We also added new and updated lenses to the Lens Catalog. Learn more about the changes.

Adding a lens to a workload in AWS WA Tool

Adding a lens to a workoad helps you better understand your architecture's stregnths and weaknesses, identify improvements, and ensure your workloads follow best practices.

To add a lens to a workload

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Well-Architected Tool console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/.

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose Workloads.

  3. Select the desired workload and choose View details.

  4. Select the lens to add choose Save.

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

Up to 20 lenses can be added to a workload.

For more information about the AWS lens catalog, visit AWS Well-Architected Lenses. Note that not every lens whitepaper is provided as a lens in the lens catalog.

Disclaimer

By accessing and/or applying custom lenses created by another AWS user or account, you acknowledge that custom lenses created by other users and shared with you are Third Party Content as defined in the AWS Customer Agreement.