Cloud Strategy Cost-Optimized
AWS, Azure, and GCP architecture review, cost optimization, and strategic planning — before overspend and technical debt become irreversible. Written report. Fixed fee. No hourly billing.
Monthly Cloud Spend
20–40%
Typical Savings
Cloud spend reduction
3
Clouds Covered
AWS, GCP, Azure
100%
Read-Only Access
No write permissions
48h
Report Turnaround
After audit completes
What We Cover
Cloud consulting across every dimension
Every engagement ends with a written report you own — not just a verbal debrief.
Architecture Review
Full audit of your current infrastructure — single points of failure, over-provisioning, security gaps, and architectural debt. Written report with findings ranked by business impact and fix cost.
Cost Optimization
Most companies overpay for cloud by 30–50%. We identify reserved instance opportunities, right-sizing targets, idle resources, and architectural changes that reduce spend without degrading performance.
Security Assessment
IAM policy review, network segmentation, secrets management, encryption at rest and in transit, and compliance posture (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI) — mapped against your live cloud configuration.
Scalability Planning
Design for 10x traffic — where will things break before growth exposes them? We model your bottlenecks and design the architectural changes needed before they become incidents.
Multi-Cloud Strategy
Vendor lock-in assessment, workload placement strategy, and managed migration paths for organizations running AWS, Azure, and GCP in parallel — with governance policies across all three.
Landing Zone Design
AWS Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones, or GCP Resource Hierarchy — enterprise-grade account structure, OU design, and governance policies that scale from 10 to 10,000 employees.
Where cloud budgets quietly drain
Most cloud waste is invisible until someone does a thorough audit. Same patterns, every company, every quarter.
You're Paying for Cloud You're Not Using
The average mid-sized company wastes 30–50% of its cloud bill on oversized instance types, forgotten resources, development environments left running, and storage classes that haven't been reviewed since initial setup. The cloud bill grows every month and nobody knows exactly why. Finance asks. Engineering shrugs.
Our approach
A comprehensive cost audit identifies every idle resource, oversized instance, and Reserved Instance purchase opportunity. We model the savings before you commit, then implement or guide your team through the changes with exact cost impact per action.
Cloud Platforms
Deep expertise across all three clouds
We give you a concrete recommendation — not "it depends." Here's when each cloud wins.
Amazon Web Services
Broadest service catalog, safest general-purpose choice. Best ecosystem, most certified talent.
Choose when
When in doubt, choose AWS. Best for teams that haven't committed to another provider.
Google Cloud Platform
Strongest for data/ML workloads, BigQuery, and Kubernetes-native architectures.
Choose when
Data-heavy, ML/AI-heavy, or Kubernetes-first teams. Best GKE implementation by far.
Microsoft Azure
Best integration with Microsoft ecosystem — M365, Active Directory, and .NET workloads.
Choose when
Microsoft-heavy organizations. Best choice when Active Directory integration is non-negotiable.
Discovery → Audit → Written Plan
Every engagement ends with a written report you can share with your board, CTO, or engineering team.
Discovery Call
Current state, pain points, growth projections, and compliance requirements. One hour, structured — we come prepared with a questionnaire so we use the time on your specific situation, not generic cloud 101.
Read-Only Infrastructure Audit
We request minimum read-only IAM access — documented exactly: what permissions, why, how long. Every service, cost driver, security gap, and architectural risk mapped. No write access unless we're also implementing.
Written Assessment Report
Findings ranked by business impact with estimated cost/risk of each issue. A 30/60/90-day action plan with specific steps, owners, and estimated savings per action. Deliverable you can share with your board or CTO.
Implementation Support
Optional: we implement the recommended changes or guide your engineering team through execution with weekly check-ins, code reviews on Terraform changes, and validation testing on each change.
Questions we get all the time
If yours is not here, reach out. We respond within 24 hours with a real answer from an engineer — not a sales pitch.
We use read-only IAM roles with the minimum permissions needed to audit — documented exactly: what access, what service, why. You can revoke the role after the engagement. We never request write access unless we're also contracted to implement the recommendations, and that's a separate scope.
In our experience, most mid-sized companies spending $5K–$50K/month on cloud can reduce spend by 20–40% through right-sizing, Reserved Instance purchases, and targeted architectural changes. We estimate the savings potential before you commit — if we don't see at least 15% in identifiable savings, we'll tell you.
AWS has the broadest service catalog and is the safest general-purpose choice — most talent available, most third-party integrations, largest ecosystem. GCP is strongest for data/ML workloads and Kubernetes. Azure wins for Microsoft-heavy organizations with Active Directory and M365 already in place. We'll recommend based on your specific workloads, team expertise, and existing contracts.
Getting architecture right at $2K/month prevents expensive rearchitecting at $20K/month. A one-time architecture review pays for itself within months for most fast-growing startups. We have lightweight engagement formats (2-hour strategy sessions, targeted cost reviews) designed for early-stage teams that don't need a full enterprise audit.
A strategy session (2 hours) is focused on one specific decision — choosing a cloud provider, designing a particular service, or evaluating a specific cost-reduction option. A full infrastructure audit is a comprehensive read-only review of your entire cloud setup with a written report. We recommend starting with a free discovery call to determine which format fits your situation.
A focused strategy session is two hours. A full infrastructure audit runs about two weeks: a read-only access review in week one, with the written 30/60/90-day report delivered 48 hours after the audit completes in week two. Implementation support, if you want it, is scoped separately and runs as long as the remediation roadmap requires.
Both. The core engagement is a vendor-neutral written assessment you own outright — many clients hand it to their own engineering team to execute. If you'd rather we implement, we do that as a separate scope: Terraform changes, IAM hardening, cost-optimization rollouts, and observability setup, with weekly check-ins and code review on every change. You're never locked into having us do the work.
Know exactly what your
cloud spend is buying you
Start with a free 30-minute cloud cost review. We'll identify the biggest waste in your current setup — no commitment, no pitch.
