Why not X?
Strong frameworks already exist, and that's a good thing. Wombat does not replace them: it makes governance, traceability and vendor-neutral, multi-cloud decision-making a first-class objective, with 8 pillars, 100+ controls and an open-source CLI.
When Wombat belongs in your stack.
Three signals that Wombat is the right addition, regardless of what else you already use.
You decide across providers
If architectural decisions don't happen within a single cloud provider, or you take exit capability seriously, you need a neutral lens. Wombat is multi-cloud by design, not by accident.
You want decisions to be auditable
Wombat relies on evidence, RFCs and transparent trade-offs. Architecture decisions become traceable artifacts, not tribal knowledge, which makes reviews, audits and long-term operations easier.
You need governance that scales
Maintainers, working groups and a TSC are part of the system, not "maybe later". Wombat ships with community governance out of the box, so the framework evolves with your organization.
An overlay, not a replacement.
Many teams already use AWS Well-Architected, Azure CAF or GCP frameworks, and should keep doing so. Wombat sits on top as a governance, sovereignty and assessment layer.
Where each one excels.
No framework-bashing. Each has a role, and a practical way to use it together with Wombat.
AWS WA · Azure CAF · GCP
Concrete, product-aligned recommendations within a single ecosystem: rich tooling, many quick wins, deep service guidance.
Use them for concrete service and implementation guidance, they know their products best. Use Wombat as the neutral assessment overlay: governance, sovereignty and multi-cloud consistency sit here.
CNCF
Standards, best practices and proven project governance across the cloud-native landscape: TAGs, working groups and a rich reference ecosystem.
Use CNCF for ecosystem standards, project maturity and cloud-native best practices. Use Wombat for scoring and the governance process that turns those practices into auditable architecture decisions.
ISO 27001 · NIST · BSI C5
Long-established, audit-ready standards with broad regulatory acceptance: a foundation for controls, compliance terminology and risk management.
Use ISO, NIST and BSI as the control and compliance foundation, the legally accepted terminology. Use Wombat to operationalize those controls for architecture and platform teams day to day.
See where Wombat clearly differs.
The comparison page shows a side-by-side breakdown, or jump straight into the 8 pillars to understand what Wombat covers in practice.
