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Security · Reliability · Performance · Cost · Operations · Sustainability · Sovereign · Agentic.
Concrete, auditable controls across all eight pillars, mapped to compliance frameworks and cloud services.
Open Framework v1.1 is the current GA release.
All decisions via public RFCs in GitHub Discussions — traceable and community-reviewed.
Works across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Four maturity levels per pillar — Poor, Adequate, Strong, Superior.
Code under Apache 2.0. Documentation under CC BY 4.0. Free to use, adapt, and build upon.
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Additional assets and source files are available in the GitHub repository.
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Wombat (formerly known as 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.
Wombat 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. www.wombat-gov.dev
Wombat 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, Wombat 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.
Wombat 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 Wombat 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.
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"Cloud-agnostic under the name 'Wombat' is emerging. Cloud-agnostic means here that the guidelines do not bind to individual hyperscalers, but remain compatible with multi-cloud and hybrid setups."
"Das Community-basierte Open-Source-Framework Wombat wurde erstmals auf der Cloud Native Conference 2026 in Frankfurt vorgestellt. Entwickelt von Sascha Lewandowski, Artem Lajko, Tim Urlaub und Sebastian Meyer, soll das Framework Architekturbewertungen über Cloud-Grenzen hinweg vereinheitlichen und Multicloud- sowie Hybrid-Cloud-Strategien unterstützen."
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