Architecture review
Pressure-test service choices, blast radius, failure isolation, cost posture, and operational readiness before the system locks in the wrong assumptions.
Starting at $3,000
Consulting
Focused architecture reviews, cost teardowns, and AI infrastructure assessments.
Focused consulting for teams that need judgment, trade-off clarity, and production-first architecture support — not generic implementation hours.
Past clients
KFC Thailand · ASTM International · ProdigyBuild · AppGambit · ProtectOnce
9+ years production AWS. 6x certified. 50+ projects. $6M+ documented savings. Full background
Cost teardown
Identify where architecture, deployment choices, and traffic patterns are driving spend, then sequence improvements without breaking production.
Starting at $2,000
AI infrastructure assessment
Evaluate LLM workloads, retrieval stacks, serving paths, observability, and platform choices with production reliability and cost in mind.
Starting at $4,000
Process
How engagements work
Discovery call (30 min, free)
We review your architecture, constraints, and the specific decision you need help with. No pitch — just context gathering.
Focused engagement (1-2 weeks)
Architecture review, cost teardown, or AI assessment delivered as a written report with recommendations, risk analysis, and next steps.
Async support (optional)
Post-engagement access for follow-up questions as your team implements the recommendations.
Fit and timing
When to reach out, and when to keep reading.
Good fit
You have a live architecture decision, reliability problem, spend concern, or AI platform question that needs judgment now, not another generic implementation tutorial.
Probably not the right fit
If the problem is still broad and educational, the publication is usually the better starting point. InfraTales consulting is best when the decision has real operational or business weight. If you need implementation hours or staff augmentation, this is not the right engagement.
What you should leave with
A clearer decision, a sharper risk and cost view, and a smaller set of next actions that can survive contact with production instead of expanding the problem surface.
Results
What past engagements look like.
40% cost reduction
Migrated a QSR chain's monolith handling 5M+ orders/month to serverless, cutting AWS spend by 40% while maintaining sub-200ms latency.
99.9% availability
Delivered a serverless SaaS platform with 99.9% uptime SLA, automated CI/CD, and zero-downtime deployments for a B2B product company.
70% less manual infrastructure
Built enterprise cloud architectures for an international standards organization, reducing manual infrastructure management by 70% through IaC automation.
Proof of judgment
Relevant case stories and breakdowns.
Contact
Start with a 30-minute conversation.
Include your system context, timeline, and the specific decision you need help with. Exploratory conversations are fine — start with the article or pattern closest to your problem, and we can go from there.