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AWS with the guardrails built in

AWS account structure, migration, cost optimisation and operational support.

The problem

AWS gives teams enormous latitude, which is its strength and, without structure, its cost problem. Accounts proliferate, instances are launched at defaults nobody revisits, and there is no organisational view of what is running or who authorised it.

How we approach it

We establish a multi-account structure with organisational policies, centralised logging and cost allocation from the outset, then migrate or optimise workloads within it.

For existing estates the sequence is reversed: make the spend visible and attributable first, eliminate the obvious waste, then restructure.

What you get

  • Multi-account organisation with service control policies
  • Cost allocation tags enforced at the organisation level
  • Savings Plans and Reserved Instance analysis
  • Centralised logging and security baseline
  • Right-sizing from measured CloudWatch data
  • Migration planning with dependency mapping

How the engagement runs

The sequence, and why each stage comes where it does.

  1. Account and spend review

    Existing accounts, workloads and cost drivers are mapped.

  2. Landing zone

    Organisation structure, guardrails, logging and network baseline.

  3. Waste removal

    Idle instances, unattached volumes and orphaned snapshots are identified and removed.

  4. Migration or modernisation

    Workloads move or are re-platformed in dependency order.

  5. Commitment and review

    Savings Plans purchased against the measured baseline, with ongoing monthly review.

Technology we work with

Named so you can check the fit against your existing estate.

  • Amazon Web Services
  • AWS Organizations
  • AWS Control Tower
  • Terraform
  • Amazon CloudWatch

Frequently asked questions

Do you support multi-cloud?
Yes, and we will also tell you when multi-cloud is adding operational cost without a corresponding benefit. Running the same workload across two providers for its own sake is expensive; using each for what it does best is not.

Talk to us about amazon web services

Tell us where you are now and what you are trying to reach. We will scope it honestly, including whether this is the engagement you actually need.