Visualise, Simulate, Govern
Detect architectural risks, simulate failures, assess your Well-Architected posture, and track growth readiness. Understand, improve, and communicate the health of your AWS architecture.
"How healthy is our architecture?"
A health score built from six factors
"What breaks if this fails?"
Failure simulation across your dependencies
"Are we Well-Architected?"
Scored on all six pillars
"What should we improve first?"
Recommendations with step-by-step guidance
Risk Radar
Specialised risk detectors analyse your infrastructure topology to find architectural weaknesses before they cause incidents. Risk Radar goes beyond security checks to examine how your resources are arranged, connected, and distributed across Availability Zones.
- Detects single points of failure, availability zone concentration risks, high blast radius resources, and missing redundancy patterns
- Surfaces consolidation opportunities like orphaned resources and duplicate security groups
- Identifies networking weaknesses including missing NAT gateways and over-permissive security groups
- Each risk is scored by severity with affected resources and recommended fix actions
Risk Radar showing detected architectural risks by type and severity
Well-Architected Assessment
Assess your infrastructure against all six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Guardian Pro scores each pillar individually and generates prioritised improvement plans so you know exactly where to focus.
- Pillar-by-pillar scoring across security, reliability, operational excellence, performance efficiency, cost optimisation, and sustainability
- Plain English narratives explain your strengths and gaps for each pillar
- Tiered improvement plans prioritise actions by impact so you address the highest-value items first
- Executive summary provides a single-view overview for stakeholder reporting and architecture reviews
- Score trend tracking and degradation alerts notify you when your Well-Architected posture declines
Well-Architected Assessment showing pillar scores with improvement plans
Failure Simulator
What would break if this resource went down? Select any resource in your infrastructure and simulate its failure. Guardian Pro traces every downstream dependency to show you exactly which resources would be affected and how far the failure would spread.
- Automatic dependency tracing follows every downstream connection to map the full blast radius of a failure
- Visual cascade graph highlights affected resources with failure paths and annotates each hop in the chain
- Impact percentage shows what proportion of your total infrastructure would be affected by a single resource failure
- Cascade depth tracking reveals how many hops the failure propagates -- shallow cascades are easier to contain than deep ones
Failure Simulator showing cascade impact graph with affected resources
Architecture Map
Visualise your entire AWS infrastructure as an interactive topology graph. Resources are arranged across multiple layers -- from internet-facing endpoints down to individual resources -- making complex architectures comprehensible at a glance.
- Interactive topology graph arranges resources from internet-facing endpoints through networking down to individual resources
- VPC grouping provides clear visual separation of network segments
- Export your architecture diagram as a PNG image for documentation, presentations, or compliance evidence
- AWS service icons on each node so you can instantly identify resource types in your topology
Architecture Map showing infrastructure topology with VPC grouping
Growth Readiness Assessment
Understand your architecture maturity with a multi-stage growth readiness assessment. Guardian Pro evaluates your infrastructure across multiple dimensions and places you on a maturity curve, providing specific recommendations to advance to the next stage.
- A multi-stage maturity model evaluates where your infrastructure sits today and what it takes to reach the next level
- Per-check scoring shows your strengths and gaps across each stage of infrastructure maturity
- Stage-specific recommendations tell you exactly what to implement to advance from your current stage to the next
- Historical snapshots track your growth readiness over time to demonstrate architectural improvement to stakeholders
Growth Readiness dashboard showing maturity stage and dimension scores
Template Health Monitoring
Track the health of your CloudFormation stacks and stay on top of template updates. When Guardian Pro fixes a resource managed by CloudFormation, it automatically flags the template as needing an update so your infrastructure-as-code stays in sync.
- Pending template updates listed with the specific property changes needed to bring your CloudFormation templates back in sync
- Fix suggestions detail the exact property changes needed to update your stack and keep infrastructure-as-code in sync
- Stack health monitoring tracks deployment status, drift detection, and resource counts across all your CloudFormation stacks
- Template update flags auto-resolve when the suggested changes are deployed, closing the loop automatically
IaC Governance showing pending template updates and stack health
Health Scorer
A single score from 0 to 100 that captures the overall health of your AWS infrastructure. The holistic scoring model rewards consistent improvement across all pillars -- fixing the biggest problems first moves your score the most.
- Factors in single points of failure, blast radius, availability zone distribution, security exposure, monitoring coverage, and cost efficiency
- Holistic scoring ensures the score responds meaningfully to real improvements, not noise
- Pillar-level breakdowns show which dimensions are dragging your score down and where to focus improvement efforts
- Daily metric snapshots provide historical trend data for reporting and stakeholder communication
Health Scorer showing overall score with pillar-level breakdown