Create a Well-Architected Workload with Tags

Let’s define a workload and associate the necessary AWS tags with it. The Well-Architected Framework Reviews are conducted per workload. A workload is a collection of resources and code that delivers business value, such as a customer-facing application or a backend process.

1. We will start with creating a workload in the Well-Architected Tool. Click Define workload associated with the necessary AWS tags.

2. Now you can define a workload:

The following are the required workload properties:

• workload-name - This is a unique identifier for the workload. Must be between 3 and 100 characters.
• description - A brief description of the workload. Must be between 3 and 250 characters.
• review-owner - The name, email address, or identifier for the primary individual or group that owns the review process. Must be between 3 and 255 characters.
• environment - The environment in which your workload runs. This must either be PRODUCTION or PREPRODUCTION
• aws-regions - The aws-regions in which your workload runs (us-east-1, etc).
• lenses - The list of lenses associated with the workload. All workloads must include the “wellarchitected” lens as a base, but can include additional lenses.

3. You need to attach the same tags associated with your EC2 instances.

   Key = Environment
   Value = watooldemo
   

4. Choose the lenses that apply to this workload. AWS Well-Architected Framework has been selected by default.

Congratulations!

You have defined a workload to review.

Click on Next Step to continue to the next section.