Platform Reliability & FinOps

What you actually run

Most cloud estates have never been looked at end to end. Health probes can report healthy while the backend is broken. A disaster-recovery workaround lives in someone’s notes. A logging setting quietly more than quadruples the bill. Credentials for a pipeline belong to an engineer who left. None of it shows up until the day it matters.

We start with a read-only baseline of the whole estate, rank what we find by severity and cost, and then fix it through reviewed infrastructure-as-code so every change is visible and reversible.

What we do

Read-only estate baseline audits across security, resilience, and cost, with severity-ranked findings and the evidence behind each one.
Observability that tells the truth. Health probes that check what matters, alerts that fire on real failure, and logging that feeds your detections without a runaway bill.
Backup, disaster recovery, and SQL high availability. Cross-region recovery that has been rehearsed, not just configured.
Keyless (OIDC-federated) automation identity for CI/CD and cloud access, so pipelines carry no long-lived secrets.
CI/CD reliability, including the watchdogs and runners that quietly stop working.
Cost attribution, idle-spend removal, and migration business cases you can defend to a board.

What you get

A severity-ranked findings report for the whole estate, each item with business impact and evidence.
The fixes, delivered as peer-reviewed infrastructure-as-code with change records and run-books.
A cloud bill you can attribute, and a savings case with before-and-after numbers.
Knowledge transfer so the estate does not depend on one person, inside or outside your company.

Proof

Auditing and hardening a $45K/month SaaS estate: 52 findings, 25 resolved in about two weeks, and a $470K–$540K three-year savings case.
From the blog: Your load balancer health probe may be lying, Two SQL Server incidents where nothing crashed, DR workarounds that never merge are defects with a timer, The logging feedback loop that more than quadrupled an AWS bill, Your CI watchdog can’t live on the pool it watches, and Key-person risk after an engineer leaves.

How we start

A Cloud Estate Baseline Audit: a read-only review of security, resilience, and cost across your Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud estate, with severity-ranked findings. Scoped and quoted before work starts; the plan is yours whether or not we do the work. Once the estate is stable, ongoing support keeps a named senior engineer on call.

Not sure what you are running? Tell us about your estate or call (662) 626-0732.

Questions we hear

What does a read-only audit mean?

We are given read access and change nothing. We inventory what runs, how it is secured, how it would recover, and what it costs, and return severity-ranked findings with evidence. You decide what to fix and who fixes it.

Will you make changes on production?

Only through peer-reviewed infrastructure-as-code and a written change record, with a rollback path. Where a workaround is already in place, we merge it or retire it; a workaround that never merges is a defect with a timer.

Do you work on AWS and Google Cloud as well as Azure?

Yes. The audit method is the same on each: observability, identity, backup and recovery, exposure, and cost. Our engineers hold Microsoft and HashiCorp (Terraform, Vault, and Consul) certifications. Most estates we see are Azure; one of the examples below is an AWS bill.

How do you report savings?

As measured results, attributed to the resource or tenant that spent the money, next to what we projected. If a fix does not save what we hoped, we say so rather than bury it in a total.