ACSC Essential Eight covers 20.6% of AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar
13 of the 63 controls in AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar are already satisfied by evidence you collected for ACSC Essential Eight. 50 are genuine gaps. Every claim below was judged against both control sets and then argued against; the ones that did not survive are published further down with the reason each failed.
What this leaves you to do
AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar has 63 controls. Holding ACSC Essential Eight already evidences 13 of them, so the work in front of you is 50 controls, not 63, which is 79% of the standard rather than all of it.
That is the whole claim. Every number in that sentence comes from the two counts above it and can be re-derived from the free tools without taking our word for any of it.
In money, using only our numbers. The full report is $299 and names 13 controls of AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar you do not have to implement again, which is $23.00 per control identified. That arithmetic uses our price and our count and assumes nothing about you.
In your hours, using your assumption. We do not know what a control costs you to implement, so pick the column that looks like your organisation. These are your figures, not our claim.
| If a control takes you | 4 hours | 8 hours | 16 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| the 13 already evidenced are | 52 hours | 104 hours | 208 hours |
| and the 50 remaining are | 200 hours | 400 hours | 800 hours |
Multiply by your own rate. We publish no rate because we have not measured yours, and a number built on an invented rate is the kind of claim this platform exists to argue against.
This number is directional. It says how much of AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar your ACSC Essential Eight evidence satisfies. The reverse pair is a different number, often very different, because a security standard has enormous depth for access control and almost none for lawful basis or data subject rights.
30 candidate mappings were examined and 0 were removed. Signed off 2026-08-19.
Claims that did not hold
Nothing proposed for this pair was rejected in review. That is unusual and worth knowing rather than hiding: it means the candidate set was small and every candidate held.
The full report
Everything above is a sample. The report is every evidenced control and every gap, with the reasoning and the source document behind each one, in a form you can hand to an assessor. $299, emailed immediately.
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