AWS consulting FAQ

Three. A two-week, fixed-fee AWS cost audit. Fixed-price project work, agreed after a scoping call. And an embedded fractional AWS engineer retainer for ongoing work. Most clients start with the audit and move on to a project or a retainer afterwards.

An AWS Certified Solutions Architect with more than five years of hands-on experience building and operating production workloads for a B2B SaaS company. Alongside client work, we also design and run a multi-tenant SaaS platform on AWS end to end.

At a fixed price, agreed after a short scoping call and set out in a written proposal with the deliverables and a delivery date. No hourly billing, no open-ended meters. The cost audit is also a fixed fee, based on the size of your environment.

A short initial commitment, then month to month with 30 days' notice on either side. The size is set to what you need, from light advisory presence to deep weekly involvement, and it can move up or down as your roadmap changes.

We are based in Canada and work remotely with teams across North America and Europe.

Book a 15-minute call on the contact page, or send a message with what you are running and your rough monthly AWS spend. We reply within one business day. If it is not a fit, we will say so.

Most environments we review can cut 25 to 40% of the monthly bill without touching what customers see. If the audit does not find at least $5,000 in annual savings, you do not pay for it.

A read-only IAM role, which you deploy from a CloudFormation template we provide. We can see configuration, metrics and billing data. We cannot change anything, and you can remove the role the moment the audit ends.

Two weeks from kickoff to findings review. Your team spends about 30 minutes on the kickoff call, a few minutes deploying the role, and 90 minutes on the findings review. Everything in between is our work.

A 25 to 40 page report with every finding ranked by dollar impact, effort and risk, a 30/60/90-day roadmap, and reliability and security flags noted along the way. Then a 90-minute findings review with your leadership team. More on how the audit works.

AWS infrastructure: architecture design and review, Terraform, build and implementation, migration, cost optimization, Savings Plan and Reserved Instance strategy, reliability and disaster recovery, deployment pipelines, monitoring, IAM and networking, security and data residency, and automation. The full list is on the services page.

No. Your engineers know your application better than we do. We work on the AWS infrastructure it runs on, the pipeline that deploys it, and the automation around it.

No. We make production easier to run, with alarms that point at the problem, deploys that roll back on their own, and runbooks your team can follow. The pager stays with your team.

No. Everything we do is on AWS.

Only an auditor can certify you. We can prepare the ground for SOC 2 or similar, with access control, logging, encryption and documentation in place, but the certification itself is out of our hands.

For Canadian clients we build in Canadian AWS regions by default: Canada (Central), ca-central-1, in Montreal, or Canada West (Calgary), ca-west-1. More on AWS security and Canadian data residency.

Yes. With two Canadian AWS regions, the second copy can sit in the other Canadian region rather than outside the country. More on AWS reliability and disaster recovery.

That is a question for your counsel, not for us. Clients do ask about PIPEDA and provincial privacy rules. What we do is build so your data stays in Canadian regions and document where it lives, so whatever the answer is, you can show it.