AWS Consulting
AWS Help for Teams
Without a DevOps Department
You're on AWS, the bill keeps growing, and the person who set it up is busy or gone. We audit, run and improve AWS for small teams: a senior engineer who's been running production on AWS for over ten years, at a fraction of a full-time hire.
10+ years running production on AWSAWS Certified Solutions ArchitectWe run our own SaaS on AWS
The Problem
AWS Is Easy to Start and Hard to Run Well
Most small teams get onto AWS through a developer, a contractor or a startup credit program. Years later there are servers nobody can explain, a bill that only goes up, no tested backups, and deployments that depend on one person.
You don't need a full-time DevOps engineer for that, and you can't afford for it to stay broken. You need someone senior for a few days a month who knows where AWS hides cost and risk.
Sound familiar?
The bill keeps climbing
Charges for NAT gateways, idle databases and forgotten snapshots nobody can explain.
One person knows how it works
Deployments, credentials and fixes depend on someone's memory.
Backups nobody has tested
Snapshots exist, but nobody has ever restored one.
Services
Three Ways We Help
Start with an audit, keep us on for the running, or bring us in to build.
AWS Cost Audit
Fixed price by spend, from $750. Every saving ranked by dollars and effort, with a refund guarantee.
Managed AWS
From $2,500/mo. Patching, backups, monitoring, security reviews and someone to call when it breaks.
Fractional DevOps
From $2,500/mo. CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers and reliability work, part-time.
What We Work With
The AWS Stack Small Teams Actually Run
Compute
ECS and Fargate, EC2, Lambda, autoscaling and load balancers.
Data
RDS and Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, backups and restores you've tested.
Networking
VPC design, NAT costs and VPC endpoints, CloudFront and Route 53.
Delivery
Terraform, GitHub Actions, container builds and zero-downtime deploys.
Security
IAM cleanup, Secrets Manager, WAF, CloudTrail and GuardDuty basics.
Cost
Savings Plans, rightsizing, storage tiers and the line items nobody reads.
How It Works
Start Small, Keep What Works
Free call
30 minutes on what you run, what it costs and what keeps you up at night.
Audit
A fixed-price review of cost, security and reliability, with the fixes ranked.
Fix
You make the fixes, or we do at our hourly rate.
Run
Optional ongoing management or DevOps help, monthly, cancel anytime.
Do you work with companies our size?
That's who we work with: teams of roughly 5–100 people running one or a handful of AWS accounts, usually without a dedicated DevOps engineer.
How much does AWS consulting cost?
Cost audits are priced by your monthly AWS spend, from $750. Managed AWS and Fractional DevOps start at $2,500/mo. One-off work is $195/hr, or $175/hr on a plan. See our pricing page for details.
Do we have to move off our current setup?
No. We start with what you have and improve it in place. Rebuilds only happen when they're cheaper than living with the problem.
Do you work with Azure or Google Cloud?
AWS is where our depth is, so that's what we offer. For other clouds we'll tell you honestly that someone else is a better fit.
Will we be locked in to you?
No. Everything we build is in your AWS accounts, defined in code you own, with documentation. Plans are month to month.
Related Services
Related Pages
Free download
The AWS Bill Self-Audit Checklist
32 places AWS quietly charges you, where to find each one in Cost Explorer, and what to do about it.
What Is Your AWS Bill Trying to Tell You?
Send us a rough monthly spend and what you run. We'll tell you which audit tier fits and what we'd look at first.