Services
Two engagements. Both designed for teams running real production AWS workloads who don't have a dedicated AWS engineer.
1. The AWS Cost Audit — $3,500
A focused 2-week engagement that quantifies exactly where your AWS spend is leaking and ranks every finding by dollar impact, effort, and risk. The door-opener offering — most clients move on to a contract afterwards.
How it works
- Day 0 — Kickoff. 30-minute call to align on scope and access. You deploy a read-only IAM role via the CloudFormation template I provide.
- Days 1–5 — Analysis. Cost Explorer, CloudWatch metrics, configuration review, instance and storage inventory, architecture mapping. No production access required.
- Days 6–8 — Report. I write a 25–40 page report — Executive Summary, Current State, Findings (ranked), 30/60/90-day Roadmap, Reliability & Security flags, Next Steps.
- Day 9 — Internal QA. I review every dollar figure and risk rating before delivery.
- Day 10 — Findings Review. 90-minute call walking your leadership team through every finding.
- Day 13–15 — Follow-up call. Discuss the roadmap and whether a longer engagement makes sense.
$12,000 savings guarantee
If the audit doesn't identify at least $12,000 in annual savings, you don't pay. Period.
2. Embedded Fractional AWS Engineering
For teams that need ongoing AWS expertise without a full-time hire. I work as your embedded AWS lead — Slack, code reviews, architecture decisions, implementation. Most clients start here after an audit.
1 day / week~4 days/month, async availability
$4,000 / month
2 days / weekEmbedded review + implementation
$7,500 / month
3 days / weekDeep embedment — typical post-audit engagement
$11,000 / month
Three-month minimum, month-to-month after. Rolling 30-day notice to end the engagement.
Scope
In scope
- AWS cost analysis and optimization
- Architecture review and right-sizing
- Reserved Instance / Savings Plan strategy
- Reliability and uptime improvements
- Security posture review (cost-adjacent)
- Automation (Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions)
- IAM, networking, and account structure
- Migration planning (off legacy services or engines)
Out of scope
- Application code (your engineers know it better)
- 24/7 production on-call
- Non-AWS cloud providers
- Compliance certification (SOC 2, HIPAA, etc.)
- Frontend or product design
- Team management or hiring