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ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

Built for what you'll need next quarter.

A senior-led, structured architecture review of your workload, with a cost model and a scaling roadmap your team can plan against.

For engineering teams who have outgrown the architecture they shipped on, and need an outside read before the next round of growth.

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STRUCTURED ARCHITECTURE REVIEW
STRUCTURED REVIEW

Five pillars. One workload. Read together.

We apply a structured architecture review across five pillars. Like senior engineers who have shipped the systems, not like a scorecard.

01

Reliability

Failure modes, recovery objectives, fault isolation.

02

Security

Identity, data protection, detection in depth.

03

Cost

Waste, commitment models, usage patterns.

04

Performance

Right-sized compute, storage, caching strategy.

05

Operations

Runbooks, observability, change management.

COST OPTIMISATION

Find the line items that don't earn their keep.

Example outcomes from recent reviews. Numbers are illustrative. Your model is built from your account.

IDLE COMPUTE38%

Saving on idle EC2 by rightsizing and consolidating dev/staging fleets onto Spot.

Mid-stage platform · 2 AWS accounts
DATA TRANSFER22%

Cut on inter-AZ traffic after routing review and VPC endpoint placement.

Data platform · 4 AWS accounts
COMMITMENTS17%

Saving on baseline compute by switching to a Savings Plan mapped to usage shape.

Marketplace · 1 AWS account
SCALING ROADMAP

A twelve-month view of the work in front of you.

Each milestone is sized against today's architecture, your traffic shape, and the next stage of growth.

Q1

Multi-account baseline

Org structure, landing zone, baseline guardrails.

Q2

Data plane split

Hot path off RDS. Read replicas and caching layer in.

Q3

Region expansion

Second region active for EU residency. Failover drilled.

Q4

Platform extraction

Internal platform with paved-road services for new teams.

NEXT

Scale review

Re-baseline at the new shape, plan the following year.

SAMPLE ARTEFACTS

From recent engagements.

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01

Cost model

Twelve-month projected spend by service and workload, with rightsizing and commitment recommendations.

02

Performance baseline

Latency, error rate, and throughput captured per service against today's baseline, with deltas tracked.

03

Account inventory

Region, VPC, AZ, and service breakdown across every account in scope. Refreshed before every report.

04

Findings register

Every issue numbered, ranked by severity, mapped to owner and remediation effort.

DELIVERABLES

Three artefacts your team can plan from.

REVIEW REPORT

Full Well-Architected review

Findings against the five pillars, with recommended changes scoped and prioritised.

COST MODEL

Twelve-month cost model

Projected spend under current and recommended architecture, by service and workload.

SCALING ROADMAP

Quarter-by-quarter plan

Milestones, owners, and capacity sized against today's team and traffic shape.

HOW WE SCOPE IT

Every review is scoped against your workload, not a template.

A full review usually runs three to four weeks of calendar time, with around eight working days of effort from our side. We start with a 30-minute call to confirm scope and the workload boundary.

We are the right fit for teams running production workloads in the cloud, with a meaningful spend profile and a roadmap they are ready to plan against. If you are still pre-launch, an architecture review is probably not the next thing you need. And we will say so.

TYPICAL ENGAGEMENT3–4 weeksCalendar time to final report
EFFORT FROM US8 working daysSenior engineer time on your account
DELIVERABLES3 signed artefactsReview, cost model, roadmap
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Plan for next quarter, this quarter.

A 30-minute scoping call. We will tell you whether an architecture review is the right next step. And what to do if it isn't.