Find out where the bill is an architecture decision.
Review & Prioritize reads your cloud estate the way an architect reads a system: cost and architecture together, because spend is shaped by boundaries, data movement, and deployment models, not only by instance sizes.
When to bring this in.
- Costs grow faster than usage
- No single line item explains the bill. The causes are usually structural and spread across accounts.
- A migration proposal needs a second opinion
- Before committing, it is worth knowing whether the design will cost less to run, or only cost differently.
- Platform spend resists explanation
- Shared platforms hide who uses what. We make usage attributable before recommending changes.
What we examine.
- Cloud cost and architecture review
- Where spend originates, which architectural decisions drive it, and which are worth revisiting.
- Resource and workload analysis
- Provisioned against used, workload by workload, so idle capacity stops hiding in averages.
- Platform and Kubernetes assessment
- Cluster sizing, density, and platform overhead measured against what the workloads need.
- Migration proposal review
- A vendor-neutral read of a pending move: its assumptions, its run cost, and its exit paths.
- Prioritized improvement roadmap
- Changes ordered by expected effect and effort, each stated with the measurement that will verify it.
What you receive.
- A measured baseline
- Where the money goes, attributable by workload and team.
- Ranked findings
- Each with its architectural cause, expected effect, and effort.
- A prioritized roadmap
- What to change first and why, with verification built in.
- A defensible record
- The reasoning your leadership can review.
How it runs.
- Measure
- The estate as it is, from billing data to workload behaviour.
- Understand
- The architecture behind each significant line.
- Prioritize
- Improvements ranked by effect, effort, and risk.
- Report
- Findings, roadmap, and the record of what was examined.
Who this is for.
- Typical estate
- Roughly €25k to €500k monthly cloud spend, or the equivalent in another currency, run by your own engineering or platform team, on any of the major providers.
- Typical team
- A platform or engineering group of five to fifty, with a CTO or CFO asking why the bill grew faster than usage.
- The moment
- A doubled bill, a commitment renewal inside six months, or a migration proposal that needs a second opinion.
- Not the right fit
- Estates below roughly €10k per month, where a review is unlikely to repay its cost, and organizations that operate no material cloud estate of their own.
See the bill the way an architect does.
Tell us where cost or complexity is building. We will identify the first measurement worth taking. Before work begins, the proposal states the accounts and systems in scope, the access required, the review steps, the duration, typically two to three weeks, and the fee.