AWS Well-Architected Agent public preview: goal-aligned cloud optimization with IaC/CLI/console remediation packs
On 2026-10-01 AWS announced public preview of the Well-Architected Agent: it correlates metrics, configs, and topology against Well-Architected practices across 65+ services, prioritizes by declared business goals, and ships console / updated IaC (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) / CLI remediation. Available in us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2; delivered via AWS Support.
Key Takeaways
- Launch: AWS News Blog 2026-10-01T20:04:04Z + What's New
- Goal-aligned three-level findings with console / updated IaC / CLI packs
- Cost/security/performance/resilience; 65+ services; pre-deploy IaC review (TF/CFN/CDK)
- Agent regions: us-east-1/2, us-west-2; needs AWS Support; ~24h after profile
- Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/userguide/agent.html — evaluate GenAI output before applying
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