AWS and cloud consulting · Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane
AWS architecture, migration and cost reduction for growing teams
We find what you're overpaying for, fix the foundations that make releases slow and risky, and leave everything in code your team understands. Every engagement starts with a cost review aimed at cutting your bill in the first quarter.
Sound familiar?
Most growing companies' cloud setups were built quickly by whoever was there at the time. That was the right call then. These are the signs it needs attention now.
The bill grows faster than revenue
Nobody is sure what half the resources do, and it feels risky to switch anything off.
Releases depend on one person
Deployments are manual, slow and nerve-wracking, and they stop when that person is on leave.
Everyone is an administrator
One AWS account, shared logins and broad permissions. Fine at five people, a real risk at fifty.
Customers are asking questions
An enterprise prospect wants to know about backups, disaster recovery and access control, and the honest answer is "we're not sure".
What you get
A platform that costs less, ships faster and is documented well enough that you don't need us to run it.
- A cost review that puts a dollar figure and an effort rating on every saving
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform or AWS CDK) for everything we touch
- A multi-account setup with single sign-on and least-privilege access
- CI/CD pipelines so any engineer can release safely, many times a day
- Monitoring, logging, alerting and budget alerts
- Backups with a tested restore, and a written recovery plan
- Runbooks and a walkthrough for your team
How it runs
Savings first, so the engagement starts paying for itself early.
Review
A week in your accounts with read-only access. You get a ranked list of savings and risks, each with a dollar figure, and a fixed quote to fix them.
One week · $4,900Fix and modernise
Quick savings first, then the foundations: infrastructure as code, accounts and access, pipelines and monitoring. Migrations are planned to avoid downtime.
Two to ten weeks · fixed quoteHand over
Runbooks, recorded walkthroughs and a session with your engineers. Optional monthly support afterwards.
Included in every buildWhere the savings usually come from
Every account is different, but the same handful of fixes come up again and again.
Right-sizing and Graviton
Instances and databases sized for peak traffic that never comes, and workloads that run cheaper on AWS's ARM-based processors.
Commitments
Savings Plans and reserved capacity for the steady part of your usage, sized so you're never locked into more than you need.
Idle and forgotten resources
Test environments running overnight and at weekends, unattached storage volumes, old snapshots and orphaned load balancers.
Data transfer and networking
NAT gateway and cross-zone traffic that quietly becomes one of the largest lines on the bill.
Tools and platforms we use most
Pricing
A fixed price for the review, and a written quote for everything after it.
| Option | Price |
|---|---|
| Cost and architecture reviewOne week. Read-only access, ranked savings and risks, fixed quote for the fixes. | $4,900 |
| Fix and moderniseSavings, infrastructure as code, accounts, pipelines and monitoring. | fixed quote |
| MigrationMoving from on-premises, another provider or an agency's account into your own AWS accounts. | fixed quote |
| Ongoing supportA named engineer for changes, monitoring and quarterly cost reviews. | from $3,500/mo |
Most projects land between $15,000 and $60,000. We don't resell cloud services or take commissions from providers, so our advice on spend is independent.
What this looks like in practice
An illustrative example of a typical engagement.
Common questions
Do you only work with AWS?
AWS is where most of our clients run and where we have the deepest experience. If you're already on Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, we work there too rather than pushing a migration you don't need.
Will a migration cause downtime?
We plan migrations to avoid it, usually by running old and new side by side and switching over in a quiet period with a tested way back. Where a short window is unavoidable, we agree it with you in advance.
How much could we save?
It depends on how your account has grown, which is why the review puts a dollar figure on each saving before you commit to anything.
We already have a DevOps engineer. Can you work with them?
Yes, and it's often the best setup. We add senior capacity for a project, pair with your engineer and leave them owning the result.
What access do you need?
Read-only access for the review. For build work, access through your own single sign-on with permissions limited to what the work requires, removed when we finish.
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