Friction
Every team ships infrastructure with a different security posture.
For platform teams
Give product teams a paved road that is secure, observable and portable — without turning the platform team into a ticket queue.
- Golden paths without lock-in
- 4 relevant pillars
- 4 starting points
What gets in the way.
Platform teams are measured on adoption, reliability and cost at the same time. Wombat gives the shared baseline: one control model, one score, and CI feedback that teams can act on before review.
Friction
Architecture review finds the expensive problems too late.
Friction
Golden paths drift as soon as the provider or the org changes.
Friction
Cost, reliability and security are tracked in different tools.
What changes with a shared baseline.
The goal is not another dashboard. It is a control model that engineering, security and finance can all use in the same conversation.
- A shared control baseline across providers and environments.
- A scorecard that turns an architecture review into a repeatable baseline.
- A CI gate that gives teams feedback in the pull request, not weeks later.
- A portable evidence trail for audits and management reporting.
Pillars that matter for this role.
Start with the pillars closest to the decisions you own, then use the scorecard to see the whole system.
WAF-SEC
Security
Secure defaults and configuration checks belong in the platform, not in a review checklist.
Read the Security pillar →WAF-REL
Reliability
Recovery, backup and failure handling are part of the paved road.
Read the Reliability pillar →WAF-OPS
Operational Excellence
Runbooks, change control and observability make the golden path operable.
Read the Operational Excellence pillar →WAF-COST
Cost Optimization
Cost feedback belongs next to the infrastructure change, not in a quarterly report.
Read the Cost Optimization pillar →Start here.
Pick the artifact closest to your next decision. Each one leads back to the same control model.
WOMBATpass Action
Open →Platform golden paths use case
Open →Run the scorecard
Open →Controls catalogue
Open →Put the baseline in the pull request
Start with a score, then wire the same checks into CI so the platform team reviews exceptions instead of every change.
Other roles.
The same control model is read differently by each role. Use the adjacent page to find the questions that matter to the rest of the team.
Evidence, not assurance theatre
For CISOs and security leaders
Translate cloud architecture into a risk posture the board can understand, the auditor can test and the engineering team can actually change.
Open the role page →Unit economics, not just spend
For FinOps and cloud economics
Connect cost decisions to reliability, performance and sustainability — so the cheapest change is not always the one that creates the next incident.
Open the role page →Carbon-aware architecture
For sustainability and ESG teams
Make cloud efficiency and carbon reporting part of the architecture baseline, not a separate spreadsheet owned by someone else.
Open the role page →