A company wants to conduct a self-review of a designed workload by answering questions aligned with the Well-Architected pillars, and then document the risks and improvement plan in a report. Which tool is MOST appropriate?
Identify the tool for conducting a pillar-based self-review of a workload.
AWS Trusted Advisor
This is incorrect. AWS Trusted Advisor automatically checks active resources and recommends improvements for cost, security, and more.
Those recommendations come from automated checks, not from answering pillar-aligned questions to systematically review design. Conducting a workload self-review and generating an improvement-plan report is the role of the AWS Well-Architected Tool.
AWS Config
This is incorrect. AWS Config records resource configuration changes and continuously evaluates compliance with rules.
It targets individual resource configurations, not a holistic pillar-by-pillar design review that produces a report.
AWS Well-Architected Tool
Correct. The AWS Well-Architected Tool is a free tool in the AWS Management Console that lets a team register a workload and answer questions aligned with the six pillars to conduct a self-review. The answers automatically produce high-risk items (HRIs) and an improvement plan that can be shared with stakeholders as a report.
AWS Compute Optimizer
This is incorrect. AWS Compute Optimizer recommends optimal instance sizes and configurations based on actual usage data.
It is specific to compute resource sizing and cannot perform a full design self-review across the six pillars.
'Pillar-aligned question-based self-review' and 'risks and improvement plan report' = AWS Well-Architected Tool (free). Automated checks of active resources with recommendations = Trusted Advisor. Configuration recording and compliance evaluation = Config. Distinguish 'self-answered review' from 'automated check.'