(Optional Step) Integrate AWS Compute Optimizer and Trusted Advisor to Another Question

Now we understand how to integrate AWS Compute Optimizer and AWS Trusted Advisor checks to review the question COST 6. In this section, we will learn how to add trusted advisor check to provide data for COST 7.

Find QuestionID using your WorkloadID

1. You can navigate to the Well-Architected Tool and select the workload created previously to retrieve the WorkloadId. WorkloadID can be found in the Properties Tab as part of the ARN. As an example, you can see that the WorkloadID for the workload called wademo is 46ff48ca1be93355e799201469dee0fd.

2. With the workloadID, we can now retrieve the QuestionID using the ListAnswers API. Replace Workload_ID with your workload id.

   aws wellarchitected list-answers --workload-id {Workload_ID} --lens-alias "wellarchitected" --pillar-id "costOptimization" --query 'AnswerSummaries[?starts_with(QuestionTitle, `How do you use pricing models to reduce cost`) == `true`].QuestionId'
   

3. Get AWS Trusted Advisor check ID that provides pricing model recommendations from here. cX3c2R1chu covers recommendations based on Standard Reserved Instances with the partial upfront payment option.

Update DynamoDB Mapping Table

1. The next step is to update the mapping table with the QuestionID we’ve just retrieved and the Trusted Advisor Check ID that we would like to include in this question note. In this example, I’m going to include the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Optimization check, this has check ID value as cX3c2R1chu You can find more about the other Trusted Advisor checks here With that, I will navigate to wa-mapping-new-question.json and update the mapping table as follows:

{
    "tableName": "wa-mapping",
    "mappings": [
        {            
            "PillarNumber": "COST-7",
            "PillarId": "costOptimization",
            "QuestionTitle": "How do you use pricing models to reduce cost?",
            "QuestionId": "pricing-model",
            "ChoiceTitle": "Perform pricing model analysis at the master account level",
            "ChoiceId": "cost_pricing_model_master_analysis",
            "TACheckId": "cX3c2R1chu"
        }
    ]
}

Now we are going to update AWS DynamoDB table with the updated json file through API Gateway provision in the the previous step.

• Replace APIGWUrl with your APIGWUrl that you deployed previously.

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d @mappings/wa-mapping-new-question.json -v POST {APIGWUrl} 
 

Confirm that UnprocessedItems appear to be empty, which means you successfully put items into AWS DynamoDB. In AWS DynamoDB console, click wa-mapping you just deployed and click Explore table items. There are 2 Question IDs of Well-Architected questions and 2 AWS Trusted Advisor checks.

Create a Well-Architected Workload with Tags

Refer to the previous section to create new Well-Architected Workload With Tags

Perform Review

I created workload called demo3 and when i clicked on Continue reviewing, choose Cost Optimization pillar. I can see that both COST 6. How do you meet cost targets when you select resource type, size and number? and COST 7. How do you use pricing models to reduce cost? have been updated with the checks from AWS Compute Optimizer and AWS Trusted Advisor

1. With the mapping table updated, we can create a new review click Continue reviewing and select AWS Well-Architected Framework Lens.

2. Throughout this lab, you have learned how to include AWS Compute Optimizer and AWS Trusted Advisor to prepare data before the review. This can be expanded further to prepare data for more questions and from more data sources