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AWS Architecture Review
Make hard AWS architecture decisions with the trade-offs in front of you.
The problem
Architecture is hard to maintain, expensive, unreliable or hard to scale, and key decisions are unclear.
Usually triggered by
- Cost increasing faster than expected
- Production issues
- Scaling limits
- Due diligence or customer security review
- A pending architecture, migration, modernization or platform decision
Who it is for
CTO, VP/Head of Engineering or Platform, technical founder, running production workloads on AWS.
Who it is not for
- Teams without a production AWS workload of substance
- Buyers who want a formal security audit or an implementation project as the first step
- Anyone looking for free advice or staff augmentation
What is covered
- AWS architecture
- Compute choices
- Networking
- Data stores
- Event-driven architecture
- Serverless
- Containers
- Scaling
- Resilience
- IAM/security architecture
- Observability
- Deployment architecture
- Operational risk
- Cost architecture
- Unnecessary complexity
What you get
- Findings
- Risks ranked by impact
- Recommended target architecture and decisions with trade-offs
- Prioritised roadmap
- Review session
What success looks like. The team can make and defend its key decisions, knows the top risks and the order to fix them.
How it works
- Discovery
- Architecture review
- Technical deep dive
- Risk analysis
- Recommendations
- Roadmap
- Review session
What we'll need from you
- Architecture diagrams or walkthrough
- Account and OU structure
- Recent cost breakdown
- Incident history
- Deployment process
- Goals and constraints
- Team context
Not included unless separately agreed
- Writing production application code
- Full infrastructure implementation
- Terraform/CDK migration
- Hands-on cloud migration
- 24x7 operational support
- Penetration testing
- Formal security audit
- SOC 2 / ISO certification work
- Detailed FinOps accounting exercise
- Vendor procurement
- Ongoing incident response
Recommendations are prioritised by business impact, reliability, security, cost, maintainability and implementation effort. InfraTales will not recommend additional complexity unless there is a clear reason for it. Example code or configuration may be included to explain a recommendation, but an engagement must not silently turn into an implementation project.
Rahul works with the engineering team as a senior architecture partner. He does not replace the engineering team.
After this
Implementation guidance, or Fractional Principal Cloud & AI Architect.
Who leads the work
- Focus
- Principal Cloud & AI Platform Architect focused on production AWS systems, event-driven architecture, serverless, DevOps, platform engineering and production AI.
- Experience
- Rahul Ladumor has 9+ years of experience building production software, cloud, platform and AI systems.
- Certifications
- Rahul holds AWS Professional certifications in Solutions Architecture, DevOps Engineering and Generative AI Development.
- Community
- Rahul is a 5x AWS Community Builder in the Serverless category.
- Consulting
- Rahul has worked as an independent Cloud & AI consultant since March 2023.
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