A practice, not a checkbox
Cloud architecture is the part of a system that you cannot redo cheaply. Network boundaries, account structure, identity model, data residency, and the contract between platform and product teams are decided early and live for years.
We are brought in when those decisions need to be made well, or remade with as little disruption as possible.
What an engagement actually delivers
Most of our cloud architecture engagements produce three things:
- A written architecture letter — prose, not slides — describing what we would build, what we would not, and why. Yours to keep, yours to challenge.
- A migration or modernization path scoped to the next two quarters, not the next decade. Every step has a rollback.
- A FinOps baseline with tagging, cost allocation, and a small set of dashboards a CFO can read without a guided tour.
Why "second budget cycle" is in the description
The first cloud bill is funded by a transformation budget. The second one comes out of operating expense, and that is where most cloud programs lose air. We design accounts, services, and data flows so that the second invoice cycle is explainable line by line.
What we do not do
We do not write a 200-page target state architecture for a system that does not yet exist. We do not recommend exotic managed services because they are interesting. We do not pretend that a multi-region active-active topology is a free lunch.
Where we work
AWS, GCP, and Azure as first-class targets. Hybrid and sovereign cloud where regulation requires it. Kubernetes when it earns its keep; plain managed services when it does not.
The deliverable that matters most is a smaller diagram than the one you started with.