Australian healthcare organisations are under growing pressure to modernise their IT systems. Rising infrastructure costs, stricter data laws, and the demand for secure, cloud-ready environments are all accelerating the shift.
In April 2025, the Australian government introduced the updated National Health (Privacy) Rules, alongside amendments to the My Health Records Act. Providers must now share eligible patient data while maintaining strict compliance with privacy and security regulations.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers the tools to support this transition, but effective migration requires more than moving workloads. It requires careful planning, risk assessment, and ongoing optimisation. AWS Well-Architected Reviews help healthcare organisations identify gaps, reduce vulnerabilities, and build scalable systems from the ground up.
WOLK’s AWS-certified team works with healthcare providers to conduct these reviews, helping you assess readiness, fix issues, and modernise your infrastructure securely and efficiently.
What Is a Well-Architected Review?
An AWS Well-Architected Review is a structured evaluation of your cloud environment. Whether you’re migrating legacy systems or expanding existing cloud resources, the review helps strengthen architecture in line with AWS best practices.
Here’s how it works:
- Workload assessment. WOLK examines your current or planned workloads against the Five Well-Architected Pillars: Security, Reliability, Operational Excellence, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimisation. This process uncovers misconfigurations, regulatory blind spots, and architectural risks before they disrupt care.
- Improvement plans. After the assessment, you receive recommendations and tasks to improve patient data security, optimise your environment’s performance, and stay aligned with AWS best practices.
- Follow-up checks. Once updates are implemented, a follow-up review checks that changes have been applied correctly. AWS tools like Key Management Services (KMS), CloudTrail, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) are commonly reviewed to validate encryption, access control, and data activity logging.
Why Well-Architected Frameworks Matter in Healthcare
All healthcare organisations in Australia depend on reliable access to data in a secure environment. Carefully balancing the two lets staff perform their tasks while complying with data security laws.
Here’s why a Well-Architected Framework is necessary to achieve this objective:
- Security and compliance. Identify and correct weak points before they become security incidents or performance failures.
- Meet compliance requirements. Stay aligned with evolving Australian privacy laws by assessing how your cloud environment handles patient data and access.
- Optimised performance. Keep critical systems online by improving redundancy and reducing failure points that could disrupt patient care.
- Improve cost and performance. Avoid overspending and slowdowns by right-sizing your cloud resources based on real usage—not inflated estimates or unnecessary complexity.
Build a Well-Architected Framework Today
WOLK has supported healthcare organisations across Australia since 2017, helping them migrate to AWS and maintain environments that meet the demands of modern care. Our Melbourne-based team understands the stakes and delivers secure, scalable, and built-to-last infrastructure.
Book an AWS Well-Architected Review with WOLK to reduce risk, improve system performance, and build a stronger foundation for digital healthcare.