Cloud StrategyCost-Optimized

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.