Engagement 1 · Architecture Review
Cloud Architecture, Cost & Risk Assessment for AWS
For CTOs and platform leaders facing a big AWS decision: a modernization, a cost reset, a resilience concern or an acquisition.
Standard scope: one environment and up to three critical workloads. Larger estates are scoped and quoted in writing.
The plan
Discovery and access
Stakeholder interviews, read-only access to the agreed accounts, billing export and architecture documents.
Architecture and risk review
Critical workloads reviewed against the six Well-Architected pillars; risks rated by consequence.
Cost and modernization analysis
Spend drivers, savings ranges with assumptions, modernization options.
Readout and roadmap
Executive readout, risk and cost register, 90–180 day roadmap, engineering backlog.
- Executive findings and architecture observations
- Risk and cost register mapped to Well-Architected pillars
- Modernization and cost priorities
- 90–180 day roadmap
- Read-only IAM role to the agreed accounts
- Cost and Usage Report or billing export
- Existing architecture documentation
- Three to five stakeholder interviews
- Implementation or remediation
- Formal security audit or penetration test
- Ongoing operations
- A Modernization Sprint for the top-priority fix
- A target architecture and resilience roadmap
- A Cloud Cost Review, then ongoing cost governance
Have a big AWS decision coming up?
Tell us what the decision is and roughly how your AWS accounts are set up. We will say whether a review would change the answer, and what it would cover. Scope and price are agreed in writing before any work starts.