Why Architecture Reviews Matter
Cloud environments evolve organically. What started as a clean design accumulates workarounds, exceptions, and technical debt. An architecture review gives you an independent assessment of where you stand and what to prioritize.
What We Look At
Security Posture
We audit IAM policies, network configurations, encryption settings, and logging. We're looking for common misconfigurations that create risk — overly permissive security groups, missing MFA, unencrypted data stores.
Cost Efficiency
We analyze your spending patterns, resource utilization, and commitment coverage. We identify oversized instances, unused resources, and opportunities for architectural optimization.
Reliability
We evaluate your architecture against real failure scenarios. What happens when an AZ goes down? When a database failover triggers? When traffic spikes 10x? We look at your backup strategy, disaster recovery plan, and auto-scaling configuration.
Operational Maturity
How do you deploy? How do you monitor? How do you respond to incidents? We assess your CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and alerting, runbooks, and on-call processes.
What You Get
Our reviews produce a prioritized findings report — not a 200-page document that sits on a shelf, but a focused list of recommendations organized by risk and effort:
- Critical: Fix this week (security vulnerabilities, single points of failure)
- High: Fix this quarter (cost optimization, reliability improvements)
- Medium: Plan for next quarter (operational improvements, architecture modernization)
- Low: Backlog items (nice-to-haves, future optimization)
Each finding includes the issue, why it matters, and specific steps to fix it.
Getting the Most Value
To get the most from an architecture review:
- Give us read access to your AWS account (we provide a minimal IAM role)
- Brief us on your business context — growth plans, compliance requirements, team size
- Be honest about what's not working — we're not here to judge, we're here to help
- Have someone available to answer questions during the review
A thorough review typically takes 1-2 weeks and the ROI is immediate. We consistently find cost savings that pay for the review multiple times over.