# Running and managing resiliency assessments from Resiliency widget
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AWS Resilience Hub enables you to run assessments for applications created and managed in myApplications in Resiliency widget. Whenever you make modifications to an application, it is recommended to run a resiliency assessment from Resiliency widget or from AWS Resilience Hub console. During this assessment, the configuration of each Application Component is evaluated against established policies and best practices. Based on this evaluation, the assessment generates recommendations for setting up alarms, creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and implementing testing strategies. Implementing these configuration recommendations can enhance the speed and efficiency of your recovery procedures, ensuring faster incident response and minimizing potential downtime.

Alarm recommendations help you set alarms that detect outages. SOP recommendations provide scripts that manage common recovery processes, such as recovery from a backup. Test recommendations offer suggestions to verify your configurations work properly. For example, you can test whether an application recovers during automatic recovery processes, such as automatic scaling or load balancing because of network issues. You can test whether application alarms are triggered when resources reach their limits. You can also test how well SOPs work under the conditions that you indicate.

**Topics**
+ [Running resiliency assessments from Resiliency widget](run-assessment-resiliency-widget.md)
+ [Reviewing assessment summary in Resiliency widget](review-assessment-resliency-widget.md)

# Running resiliency assessments from Resiliency widget
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For applications created in **myApplications** widget, you can now run resiliency assessments from the **Resiliency** widget and AWS Resilience Hub console. For more information about running resiliency assessments from AWS Resilience Hub console, see [Running resiliency assessments in AWS Resilience Hub](run-assessment.md).<a name="run-res-widget-new"></a>

**To run a resiliency assessment for an existing **myApplications** application from **Resiliency** widget for the first time**

1. Sign in to the [AWS Management Console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/).

1. Expand the left sidebar and choose **myApplications**.

1. Select the application for which you want to run assessment.

   As a prerequisite, ensure that you have added the **Resiliency** widget in your AWS Console. To add this widget, complete the following steps.

   1. On the upper or lower right of the **Console Home** dashboard, choose **\$1Add widgets**.

   1. Choose the **drag indicator**, represented by six vertical dots in the upper left of the widget title bar, and then drag it to your **Console Home** dashboard.

1. Choose **Assess application**.

1. To select an existing IAM role that will be used for accessing resources in the current account, select **Use an IAM role** and then select an IAM role from the **Select an IAM role** dropdown list.

   If you want to use current IAM user to discover your application resources, choose ** Use the current IAM user permissions** and select **I understand that I must manually configure permissions to enable the required functionality within AWS Resilience Hub** in **Use the current IAM user to discover application resources** section.

1. Choose **Assess**.

   Alternatively, turn on **Automatically assess daily** to enable AWS Resilience Hub to assess your application daily without any additional costs.

   AWS Resilience Hub performs the following actions:
   + Creates an application in AWS Resilience Hub and automatically discovers and maps the associated resources.
   + Creates and assigns a new resiliency policy with pre-defined values for recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). That is, four hours for RTO and one hour for RPO. After you generate an assessment, you can modify the resiliency policy or assign a different policy from the AWS Resilience Hub console. For more information about updating resiliency policy and attaching a different policy, see [ Managing resiliency policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/resilience-hub/latest/userguide/resiliency-policies.html?icmpid=docs_resiliencehub_help_panel_resiliency_policies).
   + Assesses the resilience of the application against RTO and RPO, and continuously monitors resources and configuration changes, and publishes the results.
**Note**  
Before starting assessments, it is advisable to evaluate the potential costs involved in running assessments using AWS Resilience Hub. For detailed pricing information, see the [AWS Resilience Hub pricing](https://aws.amazon.com//resilience-hub/pricing?icmpid=docs_resiliencehub_help_panel_resiliency_policies_hp).<a name="rerun-res-widget"></a>

**To rerun a resiliency assessment for an existing **myApplications** application from **Resiliency** widget**

1. Sign in to the [AWS Management Console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/).

1. Expand the left sidebar and choose **myApplications**.

1. Select the application you want to reassess.

   As a prerequisite, ensure that you have added the **Resiliency** widget in your AWS Console. To add this widget, complete the following steps.

   1. On the upper or lower right of the **Console Home** dashboard, choose **\$1Add widgets**.

   1. Choose the **drag indicator**, represented by six vertical dots in the upper left of the widget title bar, and then drag it to your **Console Home** dashboard.

1. Choose **Reassess** from the **Resiliency** widget.

   Alternatively, turn on **Automatically assess daily** to enable AWS Resilience Hub to assess your application daily without any additional costs.

# Reviewing assessment summary in Resiliency widget
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The **Resiliency** widget displays a snapshot of the assessment results that will provide you with most important and actionable insights into the myApplications application's resilience, potential vulnerabilities, key performance indicators (KPIs) and recommended actions for improvement. You can learn more about the application's resiliency posture from the most recent assessment using the following:
+ **Resiliency score history** – This chart displays the trend of the application's resiliency score for up to one year.
+ **Resiliency score** – Indicates the resiliency score of the application evaluated in the latest assessment. This score reflects how closely your application follows our recommendations for meeting the application's resiliency policy, and for implementing alarms, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) experiments. Choose the number to view additional information in the **Resiliency score** section under **Summary** tab in the AWS Resilience Hub console. For more information, see [Assessment report](review-assessment.md#review-section).
+ **Policy breaches** – Choose the number below to view all the Application Components (AppComponents) that breaches the policies attached to your application in the **Assessment report** pane in the AWS Resilience Hub console. For more information, see [Assessment report](review-assessment.md#review-section).
+ **Policy drifts** – Indicates the AppComponents that complied with the policy in the previous assessment but failed to comply in the current assessment. Choose the number below to view the AppComponents in the **Assessment report** pane in the AWS Resilience Hub console. For more information, see [Assessment report](review-assessment.md#review-section).
+ **Resource drifts** – Choose the number below to view all the resources that drifted from the latest assessment in the **Assessment report** pane in the AWS Resilience Hub console. For more information, see [Assessment report](review-assessment.md#review-section).
+ **Go to Resilience Hub ** – Choose this option to open your application in the AWS Resilience Hub console.