Prepare the cloud platform for the next stage of growth
Cloud environments often accumulate complexity as products, teams and operational requirements expand. You may be deploying your system in non-ideal solutions because of how you are used to deploy, your systems may be running in over-provisioned or under-utilized resources and you may be paying more for services you don’t use, for example.
This assessment determines whether the current platform can scale reliably and securely without creating unnecessary cost or slowing developers down, while proposing optimization opportunities for your requirements.
Audience
Growing companies whose original cloud setup is becoming expensive, difficult to operate or risky to scale.
What we will examine
The review covers the architecture and operating model of the cloud platform:
- Cloud account and environment organization
- Compute, storage, database and messaging choices
- Networking and service connectivity
- Scalability and failure isolation
- Infrastructure as code
- Identity, secrets and configuration
- Deployment architecture
- Backup and disaster recovery
- Cloud costs and developer usability
The assessment considers reliability, security, operability and cost together rather than optimizing any one dimension in isolation.
What you will receive
- Current cloud architecture diagram
- Reliability and scalability risks
- Infrastructure as code assessment
- Cost and operational complexity findings
- Recommended target architecture
- Architecture alternatives and trade-offs
- Prioritized cloud improvement roadmap
How the engagement works
We establish the expected growth, reliability and compliance needs before reviewing representative infrastructure, configurations, deployment paths and operational evidence. Then the infrastructure is analyzed to identify strengths and gaps and documented, so future investments can be made informed.
Optimization opportunities are identified and documented on a prioritized list for costs and operational efficiency and a roadmap is proposed for implementation.
The recommendations distinguish urgent risk reduction from longer-term platform evolution and provide an ordered path toward the target architecture.
Investment
The fixed price for this assessment starts at $12000. Cloud environments, applications and access requirements are confirmed before kickoff.