Your infrastructure costs keep climbing faster than your user base.
Service
Cloud architecture built for how your system actually grows.
We design AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud architectures around your real traffic patterns, compliance requirements, and cost ceilings, then hand off diagrams and decisions your engineering team can build from. Every recommendation is scoped after a discovery phase, not pasted in from a reference template.
Architecture flowActive
- Discovery & constraintsMap current systems, growth targets, budget, and compliance needs
- 02Architecture optionsModel 2-3 viable designs with cost and risk tradeoffs
- 03Reference designDocument the chosen architecture, IaC boundaries, and data flows
- 04ValidationPressure-test the design against failure scenarios and load projections
- 05HandoffBrief your engineers or our build team on implementation
Why teams come to us
What this service helps you solve
A single region or availability zone outage would take your product down.
Every new feature requires re-architecting instead of extending an existing design.
Compliance reviews like SOC 2 or HIPAA keep surfacing architecture gaps late.
Deliverables
What’s included
Well-Architected Framework review (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)Multi-region and multi-AZ resilience designCost modeling and right-sizing recommendationsNetwork topology and security boundary design (VPCs, subnets, IAM)Data architecture decisions (managed databases, caching, storage tiers)Infrastructure-as-code boundaries mapped to team ownershipDisaster recovery and failover designArchitecture decision records your team can reference long after handoff
Process
How the service works
- 01
Audit current infrastructure and identify constraints
- 02
Define target-state architecture with explicit tradeoffs
- 03
Validate the design against load, cost, and failure scenarios
- 04
Document decisions in architecture decision records
- 05
Hand off to your team or transition into a build engagement
Roles
Roles that may support this service
Cloud ArchitectSolutions ArchitectSecurity ArchitectCost Engineer
Final roles are recommended after discovery.Discovery before SOW
Discovery comes before every reliable statement of work.
Before we recommend roles, timelines, or pricing, we need to understand your goals, technology stack, product situation, scope, risks, and constraints. Discovery helps us align expectations and create a realistic statement of work.
What discovery documents
- Business goals
- Product goals
- Technology stack
- Current situation
- Required roles
- Timeline expectations
- Budget expectations
- Risks and unknowns
- Success criteria
FAQ
Questions about this service
Discovery always ends in a concrete architecture package — diagrams, ADRs, and an implementation plan — but most clients keep us on as either an ongoing team or a fixed-scope project to build it out, since the architects who designed it already know the constraints.
No. Most engagements start with a Well-Architected-style review of what exists, then we scope targeted changes instead of a rebuild. Discovery tells us whether you need a redesign or a series of fixes, and the statement of work reflects whichever is true.
We evaluate against your team's existing skills, your compliance requirements, and where your data already lives, not a default preference. If you're locked into a vendor for contractual reasons, we design within that constraint rather than fighting it.