The audit follows the Well-Architected framework across five pillars: security, reliability, performance, cost and operational excellence. It runs in three stages.
Collection. Automated inventory of your cloud environment: resources, configurations, network exposure, access policies, backups, consumption and billing. This phase is tooled and does not take more than a scoping meeting from your teams.
Analysis. The inventory is compared against provider best practice and your real constraints. A gap is only a problem if it has a consequence in your context, and we say so when it does not.
Readout. A report ranked by severity and effort, presented live, with actions ordered by return on investment.