# Milestones
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A milestone records the state of a workload at a particular point in time.

Save a milestone after you initially complete all the questions associated with a workload. As you change your workload based on items in your improvement plan, you can save additional milestones to measure progress.

A best practice is to save a milestone every time you make improvements to a workload.

# Saving a milestone
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A milestone records the current state of a workload. The owner of a workload can save a milestone at any time.

**To save a milestone**

1. From the workload details page, choose **Save milestone**.

1. In the **Milestone name** box, enter a name for your milestone.
**Note**  
The name must be between 3 and 100 characters. At least three characters must not be spaces. Milestone names associated with a workload must be unique. Spaces and capitalization are ignored when checking for uniqueness.

1. Choose **Save** to save the milestone.

After a milestone is saved, you cannot change the workload data that was recorded. When you delete a workload, its associated milestones are also deleted.

# Viewing milestones
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You can view milestones for a workload in the following ways:
+ On the workload details page, choose **Milestones** and choose the milestone you want to view.
+ On the **Dashboard** page, choose the workload and in the **Milestones** section, choose the milestone you want to view.

# Generating a milestone report
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You can generate a milestone report. The report contains the responses to the workload questions, your notes, and any high and medium risks that were present when the milestone was saved.

A report enables you to share details about the milestone with others who do not have access to the AWS Well-Architected Tool. 

**To generate a milestone report**

1. Select the milestone in one of the following ways.
   + From the workload details page, choose **Milestones** and choose the milestone.
   + From the **Dashboard** page, choose the workload with the milestone that you want to report on. In the **Milestones** section, choose the milestone.

1. Choose **Generate report** to generate a report.

   The PDF file is generated and you can download or view it.