FedRAMP ModerateAWS Well-Architected Security Pillar

FedRAMP Moderate covers 69.8% of AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar

44 of the 63 controls in AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar are already satisfied by evidence you collected for FedRAMP Moderate. 19 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.

69.8%
of the target already covered
44
controls evidenced
19
genuine gaps
0
claims rejected in review

What this leaves you to do

AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar has 63 controls. Holding FedRAMP Moderate already evidences 44 of them, so the work in front of you is 19 controls, not 63, which is 30% 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 44 controls of AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar you do not have to implement again, which is $6.80 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 you4 hours8 hours16 hours
the 44 already evidenced are176 hours352 hours704 hours
and the 19 remaining are76 hours152 hours304 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 FedRAMP Moderate 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.

108 candidate mappings were examined and 0 were removed. Signed off 2026-08-19, review level machine verified. Mappings were judged by Claude Code rather than read line by line by a practitioner. Every claim shows its reasoning so you can check it. Ask and a practitioner will review this pair.

Where the gaps are

Coverage is never evenly spread. A source standard usually satisfies one part of a target almost completely and barely touches another, and which part is which is the thing worth knowing before you plan the work.

Detection4 of 4 evidenced
Infrastructure Protection7 of 9 evidenced, 2 to do
Application Security6 of 8 evidenced, 2 to do
Data Protection8 of 11 evidenced, 3 to do
Incident Response5 of 8 evidenced, 3 to do
Security Foundations5 of 8 evidenced, 3 to do
Identity & Access Management9 of 15 evidenced, 6 to do

Theme level, not control level, deliberately. The per-control list of what is evidenced and what is a gap is the report itself, so publishing it here would be publishing the thing being sold.

Claims that held

A sample. Each one names the control whose evidence does the work, the control it satisfies, and why.

IR-8SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP01argued against and upheld
Identify key personnel and external resources

The incident response plan defines roles, responsibilities and contacts for responders

IR-4SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP02argued against and upheld
Develop incident management plans

Incident handling across preparation, detection, containment, eradication and recovery matches

IR-8SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP02argued against and upheld
Develop incident management plans

The plan covers the full response life cycle and is reviewed and updated

IR-3SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP04argued against and upheld
Develop and test security incident response playbooks

Testing the incident response capability with documented results is the same requirement

IR-8SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP04argued against and upheld
Develop and test security incident response playbooks

Documented response procedures for anticipated scenarios are part of the required plan

IR-3SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP07argued against and upheld
Run simulations

Testing at a defined frequency using defined tests covers simulations and exercises

IR-3(2)SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP07argued against and upheld
Run simulations

Coordinating incident response testing with related plans is the exercise scoping requirement

IR-4SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP08argued against and upheld
Establish a framework for learning from incidents

Lessons learned from handling must be incorporated into procedures, training and controls

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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