AWS cost stabilization for teamswhose bill is outgrowing the team.
Independent AWS architect focused on cost. Fixed-scope audits, full handoff, no retainers. Security, high availability, modernization, and the AI/inference workloads that scale fastest.
Fixed price. Scope defined before kickoff. You see the deliverables before you commit to remediation.
Cost, security, modernization, and high availability.
AI & inference cost
Cost-aware design for Bedrock, inference and RAG workloads — token economics, model tiering, vector store and retrieval patterns. The piece of the AWS bill that compounds quietly until someone reads it.
FinOps & Cost Optimization
Finding what's been overspent for reasons no one remembers, and making sure it doesn't happen again. Full spend analysis, resource inventory, Savings Plan modeling, tagging assessment — including rightsizing for AI workloads on Bedrock and SageMaker.
Legacy Modernization
Moving from rigid systems to architectures that can change without ceremony. Phased, never big-bang.
High-Availability Design
Resilience designed for the business cost of downtime. Multi-region, fault-tolerant, documented.
Security & Compliance
IAM review, network exposure, encryption posture, Well-Architected alignment.
A structured assessment. Defined scope. Defined deliverable.
Every engagement starts with a structured assessment. I audit cost, security, and architectural posture, then deliver a written report with severity-rated findings and a prioritized remediation roadmap.
Cost Analysis
Full AWS spend analysis and resource inventory. Identification of unused, idle, and over-provisioned resources. Reserved Instance and Savings Plan modeling. Tagging and cost allocation assessment.
Security & Compliance Review
IAM users, roles, policies, and MFA review. Network exposure and security group drift. Encryption at rest and in transit. Well-Architected Security Pillar alignment.
Architecture & Reliability Audit
Logging and monitoring coverage. Backup and disaster recovery posture. Single points of failure and scaling readiness. Documented controls suitable for audit evidence.
AWS environments that grew faster than their governance.
An AI bill nobody can explain
Inference, Bedrock and vector-store costs climb every month and no one can point to why. Runway burns on spend you can't yet attribute.
Spend that scales faster than revenue
Usage-based AI costs grow with traffic, not margin. Without controls, a successful launch becomes a budget problem.
Architecture decided in a hurry
The stack that got you to product-market fit wasn't designed for cost or scale. Every new feature compounds the bill.
No one owns the infrastructure
Your engineers are shipping product, not governing cost, security or reliability. The work that protects runway never gets prioritized.
An AI bill nobody can explain
Inference, Bedrock and vector-store costs climb every month and no one can point to why. Runway burns on spend you can't yet attribute.
Spend that scales faster than revenue
Usage-based AI costs grow with traffic, not margin. Without controls, a successful launch becomes a budget problem.
Architecture decided in a hurry
The stack that got you to product-market fit wasn't designed for cost or scale. Every new feature compounds the bill.
No one owns the infrastructure
Your engineers are shipping product, not governing cost, security or reliability. The work that protects runway never gets prioritized.
Four deliverables.
Executive Summary
A short, decision-ready document explaining where the AWS environment stands, the highest risks, and the recommended sequence of action. Written for non-technical stakeholders.
Severity-Rated Findings Register
Every finding documented with evidence, severity rating (Critical / High / Medium / Low), affected resource, and remediation guidance. The artifact your engineering team will work from.
Prioritized Remediation Roadmap
A sequenced plan with estimated effort and projected savings or risk reduction. Execute internally, engage me to deliver, or move into ongoing governance. No obligation to go further.
Findings Readout
A live walk-through of the findings with your team. Discussion, questions, push-back welcome. Included.
For agencies & software factories
Need a white-label AWS architect to win enterprise accounts and de-risk delivery? I work behind your brand — your client never sees a third party. Same fixed-scope, no-retainer model.
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