Teem

Know what your AWS environment actually looks like

An independent review of your AWS accounts covering security, cost, reliability and recovery. You receive an executive summary your board can read and a task list your engineers can act on.

Teem Audit

An AWS audit is an independent assessment of your AWS accounts against AWS best practice and your compliance obligations. Teem Audit reviews security, cost, reliability and backup, then delivers an executive summary, a detailed report, and a prioritised list of actions your engineers can pick up directly.

You need an independent view of your AWS environment—for a board, an auditor, an enterprise customer, or your own peace of mind.

A Well-Architected Review and a compliance audit answer different questions. The review asks how your workloads compare with AWS best practice across six pillars, and produces an improvement plan your team owns. An audit asks whether specific controls are in place and evidenced. We run both, and we are explicit about which one you are getting, because presenting a review as an audit is how organisations arrive at their assessor unprepared.

The problems we hear

  • No independent assessment of the AWS environment in the last twelve months
  • Automated tooling reports hundreds of findings with no sense of which matter
  • An enterprise customer or auditor has asked for evidence the team cannot produce
  • Cost, security and reliability are each owned by different people, and nobody holds the whole picture

What good looks like

  • An executive summary a non-technical board member can read and act on
  • Findings ranked by business risk, with the reasoning recorded
  • Engineer-ready remediation tasks, not a list of observations
  • A repeatable review your own team can run next time

First 30 days

A read-only review across your AWS accounts, an executive summary and detailed report, and a working session with your engineers to agree what gets fixed first.

How we deliver

01

AWS Well-Architected Review

A structured review across the six pillars—operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, cost and sustainability—producing an improvement plan rather than a verdict.

  • Workload-level review against current AWS guidance
  • High-risk items identified with the reasoning recorded
  • An improvement plan your team owns and can act on
02

Security and Compliance Audit

Assessment against the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark and the control frameworks that apply to you, with evidence an assessor will accept.

  • IAM, storage exposure, network, logging and encryption coverage
  • Control mapping with gaps named plainly
  • Evidence packaged for auditors and customer questionnaires
03

Cost Optimisation Review

Where spend is going, what is safe to reclaim, and what to leave alone—separating genuine waste from capacity the business relies on.

  • Spend attributed to teams, environments and workloads
  • Reductions ranked by saving against delivery risk
  • Tagging and accountability your finance team can use
04

Backup and Recovery Review

Whether your backups would actually restore, and how long that would take—tested rather than assumed.

  • Recovery objectives compared against tested reality
  • Gaps in coverage, retention and isolation identified
  • A recovery runbook someone can follow under pressure

Common questions

Is a Well-Architected Review the same as an AWS audit?
No. A Well-Architected Review is a structured conversation against AWS best practice across six pillars, with no pass or fail, producing an improvement plan. An audit assesses whether specific controls exist and can be evidenced, usually against a compliance framework. We offer both and state clearly which one an engagement covers.
Does passing AWS Security Hub checks mean we are compliant?
No. AWS states that its Security Hub standards and controls cannot guarantee compliance with any regulatory framework or audit. Automated checks establish a baseline; they do not evidence that a control is designed correctly, operating consistently, or owned by anyone.
How long does an AWS audit take?
A stage one review of a single account typically takes days. A comprehensive review across multiple accounts takes two to four weeks depending on estate size and how much evidence already exists. We scope this before starting so the cost is known up front.
Do you need write access to our AWS accounts?
No. The assessment is read-only. If you ask us to carry out remediation afterwards, that is agreed separately and performed alongside your engineers.

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