Platform & Cloud · FOUNDATION + SKYWAY
Multi-account topology, network boundaries, identity, IaC structure, and explicit cost ceilings — designed before deployment, in writing, by senior cloud architects who staff the engagement they wrote.
The problem
The shape is familiar: a single AWS account that grew into a thousand resources, an IaC repo that drifts from production after the third quarter, an identity model that started with a few admins and ended with two hundred IAM users, a network topology nobody can draw on a whiteboard, and a monthly bill that keeps climbing without anyone able to explain why. The cloud part isn't broken — the architecture around it is.
We design cloud architectures the way bridges are designed — with engineering load specs, named tradeoffs, and an Architecture Decision Record that becomes the contract for delivery. Account topology, network segmentation, identity model, IaC structure, observability stack, and cost ceiling are settled in writing before the first resource is provisioned. The result is a platform that compounds value across workloads — not an emergency that takes a quarter to refactor every time you ship something new.
Where it ships
Specific applications we’ve built and operated. Not speculative — every example below is grounded in a real shipped engagement.
30+
accounts orchestrated
AWS Organizations or Azure landing zones with explicit account-of-purpose, transit gateway networks, and centralized identity. The topology survives tomorrow's workload, not just today's.
First-cloud customers building from scratch. We design the substrate every future workload will rest on — IaC modules, CI/CD, identity, observability, and policy-as-code from day one.
Existing customer with cloud debt. We audit the estate, surface the architectural breakage, and produce a remediation roadmap with prioritized work and explicit dependencies.
Cross-cloud workload placement (regulatory frame, latency, sovereignty), hybrid extensions to on-prem, and cloud-to-cloud egress optimization. Honest tradeoff analysis, not vendor-driven recommendations.
−42%
cost vs prior architecture
Workload-level cost ceilings, tagging that survives, Reserved Instance / Savings Plan strategy, and autoscaling shapes calibrated to real load. FinOps as architecture, not as a quarterly cleanup.
How we engage
Each phase has a deliverable, an owner, and an acceptance criterion. Not slogans — operating rules.
Two-week assessment: workload inventory, regulatory frame, identity model, current cost shape, observability gaps, and the engineering organization behind it. Output is the load spec the architecture has to meet — not a generic best-practices checklist.
Architecture Decision Record covering account topology, network, identity, IaC structure, deployment flow, observability, and cost ceiling. ADR is the contract the build phase implements; deviations require explicit approval and become amendments to the document.
Terraform / Pulumi modules that subsequent workloads inherit. Promotion through dev → staging → prod via CI gates with OPA / Conftest / Checkov enforcement. No clickops, no hand-managed drift, no untracked production resources.
Monthly architecture review (cost, reliability, security posture). Quarterly architectural debt assessment. Annual ADR refresh. The architecture compounds value over time when it has a continuous owner — we run it under Managed Services or hand off with the documentation.
Capabilities
Stack
Selected work
Common questions
Agnostic in principle, opinionated per workload. We design with patterns that survive a future cloud move (IaC, container abstraction, identity portability), but we recommend the cloud — and services within it — that fits your workload, regulatory frame, and skills. We tell you why we recommend what we recommend, in writing.
Both. Architecture-only engagements are 4–8 weeks, fixed price, with the ADR as deliverable. Most clients then engage us for the build phase under the same ADR, but the ADR is yours to act on — including taking it to a different vendor for delivery.
Assessment first, then prioritized remediation. We audit account topology, identity, network, IaC drift, cost shape, and observability gaps. Remediation plan sequences work by risk reduction and unblocked-future-work value — not by 'fix everything in parallel'.
FinOps is architecture, not procurement. Cost ceilings per workload, tagging strategy that survives audit, Reserved Instance / Savings Plan strategy, and autoscaling shapes calibrated to real load. Most clients see 25–50% cost reduction within six months while improving reliability.
Yes — when sovereignty, regulatory, or latency demands it. We've shipped hybrid topologies for healthcare, government, and financial services, including air-gapped deployments. We also tell you honestly when an on-prem requirement is solving for the wrong constraint.
Architecture-only engagement: 4–8 weeks, $80K–$250K. Architecture + foundation build: 4–6 months, $400K–$1M. Multi-account modernization for an existing estate: 9–14 months, $1M–$3M. Brackets published honestly so visitors self-qualify before the first call.
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