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Security · Reliability · Performance · Cost · Operations · Sustainability · Sovereign · Agentic
Coming soon in v1.1
All decisions via public RFCs in GitHub Discussions — transparent and community-reviewed, every step traceable.
First stable release with full pillar coverage, controls library, and the PASS scoring model.
Works across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, and hybrid environments — independent of any provider's marketing.
Four maturity levels per pillar — Poor, Adequate, Strong, Superior — giving teams a clear, reproducible score they can track over time.
Documentation is licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0. Source code — including WAFPASS — is licensed under Apache 2.0. Both are free to use, adapt, and build upon.
All WAF++ brand assets are available for editorial use under the project's open-source licence. Please do not alter colours or proportions.
Additional assets and source files are available in the GitHub repository.
Use the following text when describing WAF++ in articles, podcasts, or presentations.
WAF++ is an open-source, vendor-neutral framework for assessing and improving the quality of cloud workloads across 8 pillars: Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimisation, Operational Excellence, Sustainability, Sovereign, and Agentic.
WAF++ (Well-Architected Framework Plus Plus) is an open-source, community-driven framework for assessing and improving cloud workload quality. It covers 8 pillars — Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimisation, Operational Excellence, Sustainability, Sovereign, and Agentic — with a transparent scoring model called PASS.
Unlike proprietary vendor frameworks, WAF++ is governed openly via RFCs in GitHub Discussions, making every decision traceable and every control citable. The framework is free to use, contribute to, and build upon.
WAF++ — pronounced "waf plus plus" — is an open-source framework that gives engineering and architecture teams a vendor-neutral lens for evaluating cloud workloads. It organises everything across eight pillars: Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimisation, Operational Excellence, Sustainability, Sovereign, and Agentic.
What makes WAF++ different is how it's built: every guideline, scoring rule, and design decision goes through a public RFC process on GitHub — fully transparent, fully community-driven. There's no vendor behind it, no upsell, and no black box. Anyone can read the criteria, challenge them, and improve them.
WAF++ is an open-source, vendor-neutral framework for cloud architecture quality — 8 pillars, transparent scoring, community-governed via public RFCs. Docs under CC BY 4.0, code under Apache 2.0. waf2p.dev
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How to refer to WAF++ correctly in editorial content.
Write the project name as WAF++ — two plus signs, all caps
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Credit as “WAF++, open-source cloud architecture framework”
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