Fractional AWS Architect
Architecture and advisory on retainer.
A senior AWS architect, embedded with your team. Not a consultancy that sends a deck and disappears — an architect on regular cadence, in your meetings, looking at the decisions before they become commitments. For teams strong on execution that need depth at the architecture layer, between architect hires, or about to make a cloud bet they don't want to make alone.
What the Retainer Covers.
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Well-Architected Reviews
Periodic reviews of your AWS environment against the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Reliability, security, cost, operational excellence, performance, sustainability — what needs attention, what to leave alone, what's quietly costing you.
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Architecture Design Oversight
We're in the room when your team designs. We catch the decisions that look reasonable but will hurt in eighteen months, and we propose the alternatives — with reasoning, not edicts.
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Technical-Debt Prioritization
An ongoing read on what to fix first, what to leave, and what to refactor opportunistically. We help your team spend time on the right things, not just the loudest things.
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Vendor & Tool Evaluation
When a new AWS service or third-party tool is on the table, we evaluate it against your specific situation — not the hype cycle. You get a real recommendation, not a procurement pitch.
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Escalation & Second Opinion
When your team hits a hard call — architecture, an AWS bill scare, a security posture question — you've got a senior architect to escalate to. Not a ticket queue.
How is this different from AWS Solutions or Managed AWS?
AWS Solutions builds and migrates things — project work. Managed AWS runs your AWS environment day-to-day — operations work. Fractional AWS Architect is the architecture and advisory layer that sits across both: the senior eye on the decisions, regardless of who’s executing them.
Who is this for?
Companies whose engineering team is strong on execution but lacks a senior cloud architect. Teams between architect hires. Organizations making big AWS bets and wanting an outside review. Technology leaders who want a peer to bounce architecture decisions off — without taking on a full-time hire.
What does the engagement look like?
Monthly retainer is the default — a set cadence of working sessions, design reviews, and availability for the architecture questions that come up between. We also do quarterly architecture reviews for teams that want a lighter touch, and one-time deep architecture assessments that often convert to retainer.
